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Bezig met laden... Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles (origineel 2010; editie 2010)door Robert Sackville-West (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An interestign biography of a house. Not riveting, but delightful to have an insider's perspective on the progression of these houses through their noble family lines. ( ) Biography of a house and the family history of those who loved it. Working backwards from Vita Sackville-West lover of Virginia Woolf and wife of diarist Harold Nicolson, I read about her childhood home and its history...lovely pictures which led to YouTube looking at films of the interior of the house and its treasures. It was an interesting family that managed to get next to power and milk it for all it was worth down through history. The history of Knole and its aristocratic owners the Sackville family as told by Robert Sackville-West the 7th Lord Sackville. Eminently readable, Robert Sackville-West’s recounting reveals the myths, legends, sorrows, and injustices endured by a family that has only once in some 400 years been able to pass on the inheritance of Knole through four direct male heirs. Knole’s owners have abundantly passed on their X chromosomes but have been spectacularly unsuccessful with their Y chromosomes, so much so it has been almost expected for inheritance to slip sideways from uncle to nephew. Knole was one of the very first great houses to pass into the keeping of the National Trust and Robert Sackville-West is very generous in his description of the relationship between the owners, the estate, and the Trust. " This book wasn't quite what I had expected, much more about the history of the Sackvilles than about Knole itself and not enough photographs, drawings, maps or floorplans etc to give one an idea of the place. All we get is the author's words (well-written ones, but still) and some paintings of the former inhabitants. Things improve in the last third of the book when the author's own memories of the house are brought to light as well as other eye-witness accounts (especially those of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf) but I really would've wished for more details (and illustrations) concerning the house, gardens, estate and every-day life rather then the political and economical wranglings of the Sackvilles. I understand the author's fascination with his family history but for an outsider Knole the house is far more interesting. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and images, the current incumbent of the seat, Robert Sackville-West, paints a vivid and intimate portrait of the vast, labyrinthine house and the close relationships his colourful ancestors formed with it. Inheritance is the story of a house and its inhabitants, a family described by Vita Sackville-West as 'a race too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent and too melancholy; a rotten lot, and nearly all stark staring mad'. Where some revelled in the hedonism of aristocratic life, others rebelled against a house which, in time, would disinherit them, shutting its doors to them forever. It's a drama in which the house itself is a principal character, it's fortunes often mirroring those of the family. Every detail holds a story- the portraits, and all the junk which the subjects of those portraits left behind, point to pivotal moments in history; all the rooms, and the objects that fill them, are freighted with an emotional significance that has been handed down from generation togeneration. Now owned by the National Trust, Knole is today one of the largest houses in England, visited by thousands annually and housing one of the country's finest collections of second-hand Royal furniture. It's a pleasure to follow Robert Sackville-West, as he unravels the private life of a public place on a fascinating, masterful, four-hundred-year tour through the memories and memorabilia, political, financial and domestic, of his extraordinary family. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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