Author: Philippa Pearce
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192751805
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Set before the first First World War, this book tells the story of Tom, Laura, Hugh, and Margaret, whose home is the great house, Charlecote, set in the Warwickshire countryside. Despite their privileged background, the children are not always happy - their parents are stern and Tom is sent away to boarding school. But when the holidays come, everything changes and the four of them have many adventures together in the vast grounds of the house. BLOriginally published in 1968, this is a welcome reissue of a book which 'movingly shows the close bond between the "upper class" children and servants in a great house, when both feared and suffered the hand of authority.' (20th Century Children's Writers)
Author: John Boyd Thacher
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: John Burke
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Author: Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
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Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: Nicholas Vincent
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Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: James Lees-Milne
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Category : Country homes
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Author: Mary Elizabeth Lucy
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780752849300
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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A delightful memoir of Mary Elizabeth Lucy and her life at Charlecote. Mary Elizabeth Williams, an heiress from North Wales, was only twenty when in 1823 she reluctantly married George Lucy and became mistress of Charlecote Old Hall in Warwickshire. Sixty years later she wrote this engaging account of her life for her grandchildren. It was a life of great happiness, for she grew to love her husband deeply. Her country home, her children, the London season and a tour abroad all brought joy and fulfilment. But her contentment was marred by tragedy as few of her many children survived her. Her words reveal a character of great strength and determination. High-spirited, discerning and delightfully free from prudishness, Mary Elizabeth Lucy draws pen-portraits of the people she met - Queen Victoria and Sir Walter Scott among them - and provides an authentic view of life in fashionable 19th-century society.
Author: Charles James Ribton-Turner
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Author: Bernard Burke
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Category : Gentry
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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