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(George) James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August 1908 – 28 December 1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries remain in print.
James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) foi um escritor inglês, perito em casas de campo inglesas. Foi um influente historiador de arquitectura, romancista e destacado biógrafo. A sua prolongada influência suporta-se no facto de que foi, também, um dos mais importantes diarista do século XX.
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 (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.
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29 de dez. de 1997 · Lees-Milne was an architectural historian, an able biographer, an aspirant novelist and, in Another Self (1970), his autobiography to 1942, when his diaries begin, the author of...
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.
28 de dez. de 2022 · They were a rum pair. James had said that he liked his men manly and his women womanly. Alvilde did too. He had an affair with Harold Nicolson in the 1930’s; Alvilde had one with Harold’s wife, Vita Sackville-West, in the 1950s. In 1979 he fell – but platonically - for Michael Bloch, an historian in his twenties.
