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Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain
Welcome and Unwelcome
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Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain
Welcome and Unwelcome
About this book
Country houses have always been a magnet for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as royalty were self-invited guests. With the rise of the railway and then the motor-car, houses became accustomed to mass visits, spawning the heritage industry of today. However, houses have also attracted less-welcome incomers: looters, arsonists, emigré s, revolutionaries, the politically undesirable, carpetbaggers, and even photographers whom one owner described as worse than burglars. This volume explores the many kinds of visitors who have crossed the thresholds of country houses, and how they have recorded their impressions— whether in sketches, journals, guest-books, works of fiction, or photographs.
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Yes, you can access Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain by Terence Dooley,Christopher Ridgway in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Irish History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Visitations: foes
- ‘I feel more like Cinderella, than anyone else you canimagine’: Elizabeth Gaskell’s visit to Chatsworth
- Misplaced hospitality and practical implications: thenorthern tour of Thomas Sandby andTheodosius Forrest, August 1774
- Soup kitchens at English country houses, 1795–1914: anew perspective on elite landscapes
- Knole and its visitors: from medieval episcopalpalace to country seat, antiquarian curiosityand treasure house
- Gloomy inhospitality: limiting access to houses andcountry estates, 1719–1838
- ‘By far the greatest & most perpetual source ofhappiness in my life has been, & is, seeing’:Christopher Hussey’s visits to country houses, 1920–70
- ‘There seem to be many more people here thanI thought we’d asked’: building collections ofvisitors in the Irish country house
- ‘An antient seat of a gentleman of Wales’: the place ofthe plas in Thomas Pennant’s Tour in Wales (1778–83)
- Visitors and visiting: a Kerry country house, 1912–39
- Visitations: friendlies
- Contributors
- Index