The Edwardian Country House (HB)
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The Edwardian Country House (HB) by Gardiner Juliet
This text explores Edwardian life, considering the events in the annual calendar of Edwardian gentry such as the masked ball and society dinner. It offers insights into, not only the family of the house, but those below stairs for whom these occasions meant weeks or months of preparation.
The Edwardian Country House is another living experiment from the makers of the 1900 House and The 1940s HouseThe Edwardian Country House follows a team of volunteers and a modern family who turn back the clock to recreate life as it was for the upper classes and their servants in a country house in 1910. It will tell the story, over three summer months, of an old-fashioned way of life that is quintessentially English: a glorious country manor, tea and croquet on the lawn, a patrician butler and a stable full of horses. But this picturesque historical tableau is of a group of people utterly divided and ruled by class. Do their ostensibly old-fashioned issues of money, power, and above all, class, still plague Britain today? This will be a major series and a high-profile book.
Juliet Gardiner was editor of History Today, and has worked as an academic and trade publisher. In 1992 she returned to academic life and now heads the Publishing Studies programme at Oxford Brookes University. She has written eight books, including The 1940s House, and has edited The Penguin Dictionary of British History and Who's Who in 2,000 Years of British History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780752261669 |
| ISBN 10 | 0752261665 |
| Title | The Edwardian Country House (HB) |
| Author | Gardiner Juliet |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2002-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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