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George James Henry Lees-Milne, né le 6 août 1908 et mort le 28 décembre 1997, est un écrivain anglais spécialiste des country houses, qui travaille pour le National Trust de 1936 à 1973 et qui est historien de l'architecture et biographe. Il fait aussi partie des personnalités mondaines de l'après-guerre.
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.
James Lees-Milne (1908-1997)--known to friends as Jim--is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England’s greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as "the 20th-century Pepys."
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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James Lees-Milne papers. The James Lees-Milne Papers consist of correspondence, writings, and other papers of British writer and architectural historian James Lees-Milne. They span the years 1907-97, with the bulk falling between 1930-97. The papers are organized into four series: Correspondence, Writings, Other Papers, and Photographs.
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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- James; abridged and introduced by Michael Bloch Lees-Milne
