Article: Beneath a Waning Moon: Diaries.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Weekend: Books - Beneath A Waning Moon, Diaries, ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 15, 2003 ;     552 words ... ... Reviewed by Katherine Haddon Halfway through these diaries, James Lees-Milne bumps into Alan Clark -a diarist of some notoriety ... head, sagging mouth and 'corrugated' face. The titular waning moon refers not only to his age, but also to an all-but-lost ...

Article: Books: Publish and be dropped! Beneath a Waning ...
The Independent on Sunday;  November 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... behold." This present volume of diaries is the 10th, beginning with Ancestral Voices which opens in the early 1940s when James Lees- Milne first began to record his journeys to rescue stately houses that would otherwise have been demolished or left to rot ...

Article: James Lees-Milne. (Briton persuaded landowners to ...
The Economist (US);  January 3, 1998 ;     700+ words ...THE old houses of England, James Lees-Milne once wrote, meant for him ... despised "lower classes". Jam on the sofa James Lees-Milne's parents were Worcestershire ... has become fuzzy, perhaps inevitably. James Lees-Milne regretted that some National ...

Article: Still waspish after all these years Patrick Skene-Catling enjoys ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries, 1988-1992 by James Lees-Milne John Murray, pounds 25, 354 ... 155 7222 "O LACK, LACK , lackaday," James Lees-Milne wrote about the state of himself ... publisher promises one more volume of James Lees-Milne diaries and, of course, many ...

Article: Obituary: James Lees-Milne
The Independent - London;  December 29, 1997 ;     700+ words ...James Lees-Milne, architectural historian and writer: born Wickhamford, Worcestershire ... Gloucestershire 28 December 1997. Shy, droll, diligent, well- connected, James Lees-Milne was an enigmatic and provocative figure, one of the last of the ...

Article: Diaries, 1971-1983. James Lees-Milne.(Brief ...
Contemporary Review;  September 22, 2008 ;     482 words ...Diaries, 1971-1983. James Lees-Milne. Michael Bloch, editor. John Murray. [pounds sterling ... 00. xvii + 494 pages. ISBN 9778-0-7195-6682-0. The James Lees-Milne diary industry continues apace with an abridged edition ...

Article: Diary of a nobody; James Lees-Milne was an ...
The Evening Standard (London, England);  October 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: DAVID SEXTON JAMES Lees-Milne was absurd. He was an utter snob. He loved to frequent ... 1992. It is not quite the Bob Geldof view. Yet the Diaries of James Lees-Milne are one of the treasures of contemporary English literature ...