Article: The country house explained. (reprint, 2003).(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Macca's fab hideaway; Val Hennessy spent a night at Ireland's ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  March 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... have been had by them and their guests when they saw the outrageous Victorian plumbing. 'The lavatories are as old as the house,' explained Sir John, as I and a group of fascinated guests gazed at a red padded-velvet job on a raised plinth, beside a massive ...

Article: The Edwardian house explained.(Brief Article)(Book ...
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2008 ;     460 words ...9781853069826 The Edwardian house explained. Yorke, Trevor. Countryside Books 2007 127 pages $19.95 Paperback England's living history series NA7328 Artist and designer ...

Article: The 1930s house explained.(Brief Article)(Book ...
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2008 ;     380 words ...9781846740022 The 1930s house explained. Yorke, Trevor. Countryside Books 2006 128 pages $19.95 Paperback England's living history NA7328 A rare, intimate view ...

Article: Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and ...
Utopian Studies;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Jenkins. Feigned Commonwealths: The Country-House Poem and the Fashioning of the Ideal ... is the "renascence idolum of the Country House" (201). The rich Latin cultural heritage of the country house myth ranges from Martial, Horace ...

Article: INTERIORS Easy on the eye the country house way; ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... typical of the 18th Century, when this country house was built. Groupings of differently ... entertain the fantasy of living in a country house? There is something about the faded ... evocative of comfort and welcome than the country house bedroom with fresh white linen and ...

Article: BRITAIN'S COUNTRY HOUSE HOTELS OFFER OLD-FASHIONED ...
The Boston Globe;  November 9, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... Girouard's "Life in the English Country House." My favorite magazine is "Country ... appointed, well administered, well filled country house." And so if I could pick a place ... establishment in Britain called the country house hotel, which serves two purposes ...

Article: Kari Boyd McBride. Country House Discourse in Early ...
Utopian Studies;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... associates the architecture of the English country house with a fundamental Englishness ... circumstances and ideological practice. The country house in English culture and history serves ... s recent film, Gosford Park. The country house in English literature, art and culture ...