The Irish Country House: A Social History
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth, gilt letters on spine, yellow & color illus. dust jacket, 384 pp., color & BW illus. VG- (DJ has edge tanning in its interior; pages may be beginning to tan lightly at far edges; otherwise clean.). Item #150800
ISBN: 1856192377
"Examines the lifestyle of those described by a nineteenth-century traveller as 'rural sovereigns'. [This book] quotes from the writings of George Moore, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Somerville, Violet Martin and Molly Keane. ... [It] examines the wretched relationship between landlord and tenant, the flawed concept of 'loyalty' and the terrors of the land war. ... Here is a story of conquest, ambition, acquisition and loss; shameful, grim, hilarious, unedifying and glorious." (dj).
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