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Jane Austen’s Film and TV Adaptation Locations: Sudbury Hall Interiors Part 3
Back to Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire for the final part of the series of posts on the rooms used for the Pemberley interior scenes in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Part 1 is...
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Lyme Park on Treasure Hunt Blog
My fellow blogger and most elegant and erudite correspondent,Emile de Brujin of the National Trust’s Treasure Hunt blog has recently posted some interesting articles about Lyme Park in Cheshire, a...
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Jane Austen’s TV and Film Locations: Burghley House, ‘Rosings’ in Pride and...
Burghley House in Stamford, Lincolnshire was the location chosen to represent Rosings, Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s home in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. It might at first appear to...
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Jane Austen’s Film and TV Locations-The Bow Room at Burghley House, the...
Last week we talked about Burghley House and its fantastic Heaven Room which was used as the location for Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s drawing-room at Rosings in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride and...
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Jane Austen’s Film and TV adaptation locations: Burghley Park and Some...
As we have seen in on our previous two posts about Burghley as the setting for Rosings in the 2005 production of Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightly, Burghley House was used as the setting...
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The Paperback Edition of “London’s Country Houses” by Caroline Knight
I posted a review of this book last year ,and I sadly had left it too late for you all to act on as the hardback edition was already sold out in the UK and became sold out in the USA a few weeks...
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Jane Austen Film Locations: Kirby Hall as Mansfield Park, Part Three…with a...
This is the third and final of our posts on Kirby Hall in Northamptonshire, which was used as the setting for Mansfield Park in Patricia Rozema’s 1999 adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Today we shall...
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Book Review, The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot “Capability” Brown, by Jane...
First, a warning: I so enjoyed this book that I devoured it and cannot really be truly objective about it. It is a wonderful immersion into Brown’s world, with a fascinating list of well written...
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“Barton Park” for sale…
Characteristically, Jane Austen is sparse in her description of Barton Park, the home of the affable Sir John and the sadly less than pleasant Lady Middleton in Sense and Sensibility: Barton Park was...
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The Ha-Ha at Stowe
Last week I paid a long over due return visit to Stowe Landscape Gardens in Buckinghamshire, now maintained by the National Trust,but which was the home of those ever improving gardeners of the 18th...
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