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James Lees-Milne (1908-1997)--known to friends as Jim--is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England’s greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as "the 20th-century Pepys." In this long-awaited biography, Michael Bloch portrays a life rich in contradictions, in which an unassuming youth ...
More about James Lees-Milne (George) James Henry Lees-Milne (1908–1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses. He was an architectural historian, novelist, and a biographer.
24 de feb. de 2014 · James Lees-Milne is not a name that the majority of people will be familiar with. Born in 1908 to a prosperous manufacturing family in Worcestershire, England, Milne gained a top rate education at Eton College and Oxford University. Described as shy, withdrawn and suffering from an inferiority complex, he did not appear to shine at either of ...
THE LIFE OF JAMES LEES-MILNE. page 4. 1968-75: By the late 1960s, JLM and Alvilde had achieved a modus vivendi, living as a devoted couple at Alderley, yet leading separate lives. In his sixties, he finally began to achieve recognition as a man of letters outside the field of architecture. His autobiographical novel Another Self appeared in ...
James Lees-Milne. Penguin, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 285 pages. This work offers an insight into the tastes and manners of an age which produced some of England's finest architecture. The five earls featured flourished in the 18th century, when the fashionable amateur exercised a greater influence than ever before in the long history ...
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 Complete Diaries Series. 12 primary works • 12 total works. The unabridged 12 volume set of diaries. Ancestral Voices: Diaries, 1942-1943. by James Lees-Milne. 4.19 · 63 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 1978 · 8 editions. Ancestral Diaries, 1942-1943.
