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1 de jan. de 2007 · James Lees-Milne, like that other revered diarist from the mid-twentieth-century, Harold Nicolson (who was his friend), has come to be viewed as, if not one of the greatest British diarists of all times, then, certainly, as one of the wittiest and most entertaining. Unlike, Nicolson, though, Lees-Milne lived into the 'nineties.
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6 de jan. de 1998 · James Lees-Milne, British architectural historian and author who played a key role in the preservation of historic country houses, died on Dec. 28 at age 89 (M) Skip to content Skip to site index.
10 de set. de 2009 · Rosemary Hill. 3743 words. James Lees-Milne: The Life. by Michael Bloch. Murray, 400 pp., £25, September 2009, 978 0 7195 6034 7. Anyone who knew or knew of James Lees-Milne in his later years might have formed the impression of an exquisitely polished round peg in a perfectly round hole. Aesthete, diarist, wit, he had known everyone from the ...
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.
Although James Lees-Milne aspired to be a writer from his earliest years, he was almost middle-aged before he got a book into print. His first title, The Age of Adam, was published by Batsford in 1947, when he was thirty-eight. There followed two further works of architectural history, Tudor Renaissance (1951) and The Age of Inigo Jones (1953).
James Lees-Milne (1908-97) was the first Historic Buildings Secretary of the National Trust. He was instrumental in their acquisitoin of such splendid and much-visited properties as Attingham, Charlecote, Knole, Petworth, Sissinghurst, Stourhead and Wallington. As a gifted and versatile author, he achieved note first as an architectural ...
6 de ago. de 2013 · Paperback. $17.59 11 Used from $5.74 8 New from $17.59. The acclaimed biography of the English architectural historian James Lees-Milne (1908-97), renowned for his work rescuing country houses for the National Trust, his colourful bisexual love-life, and the remarkable diaries which have earned him a reputation as ‘the twentieth-century Pepys ...
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