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Madresfield : One house, one family, one thousand years, Paperback / softback Book

Madresfield : One house, one family, one thousand years Paperback / softback

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Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.

It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family's hands to this day.

Inside, it is a very private, unmistakably English, manor house; a lived-in family home where the bejewelled sits next to the threadbare.

The house and the family were the real inspiration for Brideshead Revisited: Evelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons. Never before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets. And so the rich, dramatic history of one landed family unfolds in parallel with the history of England itself over a millennium, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot; through the tale of the disputed legacy that inspired Dickens' Bleak House; to the secret love behind Elgar's Enigma Variations; and the story of the scandal of Lord Beauchamp, the disgraced 7th Earl.

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