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James Lees-Milne. (George) James Henry Lees-Milne (6 August 1908 – 28 December 1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries remain in print. Early life.
Learn about the life and work of James Lees-Milne, a versatile author and the first Historic Buildings Secretary of the National Trust. Explore his diaries, which reveal his candid, witty and paradoxical personality, and his friendships with literary figures.
29 de dic. de 1997 · Lees-Milne was an architectural historian, an able biographer, an aspirant novelist and, in Another Self (1970), his autobiography to 1942, when his diaries begin, the author of...
14 de feb. de 2020 · English. 336 pages : 26 cm. Includes bibliographical references (page 328) and index. Peter saint and man -- Christianity in the making -- Constantine's Basilica -- The Renaissance Basilica -- Michelangelo and his followers -- The dome and the obelisk -- Maderno's nave -- The high baroque and Bernini -- The last centuries.
1 de ene. de 1998 · James Lees-Milne, who saved the country house, died on December 28th, aged 89. Jan 1st 1998 |. THE old houses of England, James Lees-Milne once wrote, meant for him “far more than human lives”.
10 de sept. de 2009 · Anyone who knew or knew of James Lees-Milne in his later years might have formed the impression of an exquisitely polished round peg in a perfectly round hole. Aesthete, diarist, wit, he had known everyone from the Mitfords to Mick Jagger and wrote about them amusingly.
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...
