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Madresfield (Hardcover)

by Jane Mulvagh (Author)

3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Hardcover: 383 pages
Publisher: Doubleday (2 Jun 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0385607725
ISBN-13: 978-0385607728
Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15 x 4.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 120,145 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Selina Hastings, Daily Mail
Scholarly, evocative and beautifully written...a thrillingly vivid historical portrait...a little masterpiece, as rich and rare as the house itself.

Nicholas Shakespeare, Telegraph
Fascinating history...Mulvagh is a tactful tour-guide...she sets the reader at ease...lays out for the first time the full heartbreaking background.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Madresfield, 4 Jul 2008

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Jane Mulvagh's book should be called The Lygons to be more accurate. She offers only tantalising glimpses into the house itself, using suspiciously round dimensions to describe the rooms, an implausibly high drawing room ceiling and throws away a comment about 60 bedrooms in her descriptions. If you are looking for a history of Madresfield you'd be better to read 'The Last Country Houses' or the Country Life articles, the latter of which don't make a mention in her bibliography. Her links from the brief descriptions of the house to the various family members are facile and 2 dimensional.

However as a history of the Lygon's the book is very good. It makes fascinating reading, particularly on the 20th century Lygons and offers glimpses to a very different way of life that was broken apart by scandal. The Brideshead Revisited inspiration seem undeniable and offers a realistic basis to a 20th century classic.

All in all a good book, but misleadingly titled.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Missed Opportunity, 21 Dec 2008

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can't decide whether it is family history or architecture/design history - and the Evelyn Waugh material seems tagged on at beginning and end to please the marketing department. Badly written too.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A well thought-out approach to a family history, 27 Oct 2008

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Full credit for the way this book is laid out, taking a room or a feature and then relating it to a stage in the history of the Lygon family. The main interest for the ordinary reader will be the association with Brideshead Revisited, but there are other connections that are equally fascinating: with the fictional Jarndyce Case in Dickens, and with Edward Elgar. A small caveat on the latter - Mary Lygon is now thought not to be '****' in the Enigma Variations (ref Michael Kennedy), though this is not to deny that she had a close friendship with Elgar. Some excellent pictures, especially of the Arts and Crafts treasures at Madresfield Court.

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