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James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his adult life, which has been compared with that of Samuel Pepys and hailed as 'a treasure of contemporary English literature'.
JAMES LEES-MILNE (1908-97), English architectural conservationist and writer, is now best remembered for his diaries. He was an acute social observer and befriended many leading men and women of his time.
21 de nov. de 2002 · James Lees-Milne (1908–1997) began working for the National Trust in 1936, left for war service, was invalided out in 1941, went back to the Trust, and worked there off and on, at various levels of full- or part-time employment, and various levels of edginess as well, until 1966; in 1951 he married Alvilde Chaplin, a marriage mainly happy, if not without alarums.
JAMES LEES-MILNE (1908-97), English architectural conservationist and writer, is now best remembered for his diaries. He was an acute social observer and befriended many leading men and women of his time.
James Lees-Milne has 64 books on Goodreads with 2220 ratings. James Lees-Milne’s most popular book is Diaries 1942-1954.
1 de jan. de 1983 · James Lees-Milne. 4.19. 32 ratings5 reviews. In this third volume of his diaries, written in the years 1946 and 1947, James Lees-Milne continues his perambulations round England on behalf of the National Trust. The content, as before, mixes learning light worn with social and literary gossip of the most compelling kind.
James Lees-Milne. Lees-Milne was an architectural historian, whose witty and urbane wartime diaries have inspired the 3 plays. In 1936 – only in his early 20s – he was appointed Secretary to ...
