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Three Houses, Many Lives
Gillian Tindall
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Description for Three Houses, Many Lives
Paperback. From Eugenia Stanhope who sold Lord Chesterfield's scandalous letters, to the autocratic vicar who held the same parish from age 28 to 82, from the just-literate wife of a parish clerk who wrote riddles in his registers, to the cow-keeper who farmed 226 acres in Hornsey till he sold them profitably when the railways came through. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3J; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
‘A major achievement' Ronald Blythe, author of Akenfield
A Cotswold vicarage.
A former girls' boarding school in Surrey.
A Jacobean house now buried in inner London.
Three Houses, Many Lives tells the stories not only of the houses themselves but of the lives of the many people who lived in them. From Eugenia Stanhope who sold Lord Chesterfield's scandalous letters, to the autocratic vicar who held the same parish from age 28 to 82, from the just-literate wife of a parish clerk who wrote riddles in his registers, to the cow-keeper who farmed 226 acres in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099547037
SKU
V9780099547037
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99-2
About Gillian Tindall
Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, well known for the quality of her writing and the scrupulousness of her research; she makes a handful of people, a few locations or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture, as her seminal book The Fields Beneath, approached the history of Kentish Town, London. She has also written on ... Read more
Reviews for Three Houses, Many Lives
With a detective’s forensic patience and the narrative ear of a novelist, Tindall unpicks the histories of these houses
Jane Shilling
Sunday Telegraph
Gillian Tindall is a tapestry maker. She finds patterns in history – woven from close research into people and places – that no one else would have the persistence and insight to pursue. In ... Read more
Jane Shilling
Sunday Telegraph
Gillian Tindall is a tapestry maker. She finds patterns in history – woven from close research into people and places – that no one else would have the persistence and insight to pursue. In ... Read more