Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive str

Country houses formed a distinct community and power base within the broader Victorian countryside. This book shows how landed families' day-to-day existence de

The English country house reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century. Designed by the most eminent architects of the age, the houses were bigger, more ela

A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master