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The diaries of James Lees-Milne were originally published in twelve volumes between 1975 and 2005. Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne's literary executor and editor of the last five volumes of the complete work, has produced this skilful compilation from the first five volumes - including interesting new material omitted from the original ...
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28 de dez. de 2022 · 25 years after his death, Mark McGinness remembers the great architectural historian and country house saviour, James Lees-Milne (1908-97) It all began one rowdy night in 1936 at a dinner at the Jacobean mansion, Rousham Park, near Oxford, where, after the port, the drunken young host, who was renting the house, took to the family portraits with a hunting crop and shot appendages off 18th ...
of James Lees-Milne James Lees-Milne's two volumes of diaries, Ancestral Voices (1975) and Prophesying Peace (1977), cover the war years 1942-45, during which the author, an invalid from the army, worked for the National Trust as a kind of field representative. When country houses were offered to the Trust, Lees-Milne would travel to them for ...
The Lees-Milne family lived at Wickhamford Manor during the early twentieth century. James Lees-Milne (1908 - 1997) was a writer with a special interest in historic houses. From 1936 to 1950 he worked for the National Trust and played a key role in the first large-scale transfer of country houses from private ownership to the National Trust.
THE LIFE OF JAMES LEES-MILNE. page 2. 1936-1939: The early weeks of 1936 marked a low point of JLM's life. He was unemployed, penniless and socially in disgrace after jilting his fiancée. But that spring he landed the job of his dreams as secretary to the newly-formed Country Houses Committee of the National Trust - a job he owed to Harold ...
James Lees-Milne. Drama on 4. By Christopher William Hill. Three plays inspired by the diaries of writer and architectural historian James Lees-Milne that chart the decline and fall of the English ...
1 de jan. de 1998 · James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses. Biography He was a noted biographer and historian, and is also considered one of the twentieth century's great diarists. He came from a family of landed gentry and grew up in Worcestershire. He attended Lockers Park Prep School, Eton and Oxford University.
