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The country houses built in Britain during the mid- and late-19th centuries, as Mark Girouard, notes in this book, are monuments to their age. Built for the Victorian country gentleman, they reflected the values and priorities of his class, while their development speaks to the changing tastes and t...
Mark Girouard is in that very exclusive group of authors who can be said to have created their own genre of books. For decades he has written studies of country houses and the people who lived in them, blazing a trail that, with the popularity of programs like "Downton Abbey," others have subsequent...
I remember reading this for a history class in college and really enjoying it. I wrote a paper about it and received a D, the first in my life. The prof couldn't say what exactly was wrong with my paper but summed it up by saying it was the paper of an English major, not a history major.
Girouard set out to trace the resurgence of chivalry in England. The book starts out well, with a description of the most popular play of 1912, "Where the Rainbow Ends." In it, a collection of school children battle the Dragon King and their aunt and uncle, who are cruel and unpatriotic. With the...
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