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Gardens

Their Form and Design

By: Frances Wolseley Viscountess

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Gardens

Their Form and Design

By: Frances Wolseley Viscountess

Viscountess Wolseley's 1919 book offers gardeners suggestions for the perfection of their gardens through careful planning of the lie of the ground and of restful lines.

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310

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Applewood Books

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1429014458

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9781429014458

The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife

Henry James's Letters to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley and Lady Wolseley, 1878-1913

By: Henry James,Viscountess Louisa Wolseley

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The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife

Henry James's Letters to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley and Lady Wolseley, 1878-1913

By: Henry James,Viscountess Louisa Wolseley

As his letters attest, for nearly forty years Henry James enjoyed a warm and gratifying friendship with Britain's foremost soldier of the last quarter of the nineteenth century and his wife. The Wolseleys were notable figures. Lord Wolseley, the field marshal who became Britain's commander in chief of the British army, was a national hero. Both a bibliophile and an author, Wolseley was described by Henry James to his brother William as an "excellent example of the cultivated British soldier." Lady Wolseley was also well-read, as well as stylish, strong-willed, and shrewd, and in Henry's view, a delightful correspondent--in short, as the editor writes, "precisely the kind of woman James most admired." In The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife, Alan James offers a collection of more than one hundred letters--most of them published here for the first time--that Henry James wrote to the Wolseleys, the majority to Lady Wolseley. Included are an overall introduction to the letters; separate introductory profiles of Lord and Lady Wolseley along with commentaries on the factors that drew James and the Wolseleys together; introductions to each of four sections of the letters, divided chronologically; and annotations throughout, identifying the notable men and women to whom James refers as well as comparing what James and the Wolseleys thought of them and their work.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813932351

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9780813932354

The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife

Henry James's Letters to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley and Lady Wolseley, 1878-1913

By: Henry James,Viscountess Louisa Wolseley

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Henry James's Letters to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley and Lady Wolseley, 1878-1913

By: Henry James,Viscountess Louisa Wolseley

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Historic Houses of East Sussex & Their Owners

By: Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley

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Historic Houses of East Sussex & Their Owners

By: Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley

Frances Garnet Wolseley was born in London in 1872.She was very much a countrywoman who loved bothhunting and taking long solitary walks with her dogs.Early in 1898 the Wolseleys rented Glynde Place and shehad by then trained as a gardener. In 1903 her mothersaw an advertisement placed by a lady gardener whowas in `distressed circumstances¿ and engaged her. Heremployment then sparked the idea of founding a schoolfor lady gardeners.Arthur Beckett founded the Sussex County Magazine inDecember 1926 and asked her to contribute a seriesentitled Historic Houses of Sussex. Over the years thatfollowed she described 115 houses, the last four articlesappearing posthumously. In Myth and Memory shedeclared that she would always be glad that she hadbeen chosen to write the series for it enabled her to spendher summers exploring the county she loved looking atfascinating houses. In winter she did her research.This book contains the articles she wrote between 1926and 1935 on East Sussex. (West Sussex Historic Houses &their Owners is published by Country Books in twocompanion volumes.)These books should prove invaluable for the lover of old Sussex houses, and with an index of family names,for those tracing their family tree. The very fact that shewas a viscountess, opened doors to her. Several of theseold buildings had been reduced to farm houses. Many ofthem are still in private hands ¿ where circumstanceshave changed, they are mentioned at the end of eacharticle.

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190121494X

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Gardens

Gardens

The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife

The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife

The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife

The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife

Historic Houses of East Sussex & Their Owners

Historic Houses of East Sussex & Their Owners

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