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Article: 'What if I am a snob?'
- Article from:
- The Spectator
- Article date:
- September 14, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Spectator Sep 14, 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Profile: James Lees-Milne, who lives among hunting folk, but is the last of the aesthetes
IT WAS appropriate that my first meeting with James Lees-Milne - elder statesman of the country-house whose latest book has just been published (Fourteen Friends, John Murray) - should have been in one. We were both staying at Vaynol Park, North Wales, the seat of that sadly missed raconteur and specialist in royal yarns, Sir Michael Duff. It was at Vaynol that I realised that a sound reason for the continuing existence of the lived-in country house was its profound influence on the anecdote. The pointed anecdote breeds nowhere so well as in the country house. And here were two anecdotalists indulging ...
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