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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).
THE OFFICIALJAMES LEES-MILNE WEBSITE. THE OFFICIAL. JAMES LEES-MILNE WEBSITE. In 1987 and 1988, Gary Conklin ( www.garyconklinfilms.com) recorded interviews with James Lees-Milne for his film A Question of Class: English Literary Life between 1918 and 1945 (1992). These clips are included by his kind permission.
1 de jan. de 1998 · James Lees-Milne, who saved the country house, died on December 28th, aged 89. THE old houses of England, James Lees-Milne once wrote, meant for him “far more than human lives”. In the 1930s ...
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.
Scope and Contents. 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.
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.
