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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
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The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
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Alice Munro
Alice Munro's short-story cycle tells the story of Rose, a young woman growing up in rural Canada with her stepmother, Flo. Following the two over the course of several decades, THE BEGGAR MAID (titled WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? in Canada) presents Rose as a bright, observant, and engaging young woman who is desperate to make something of her life- ...
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Fallingwater, a Frank Lloyd Wright Country House
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Edgar Kaufmann, Mark Girouard (Foreword by)
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Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman
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Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History
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Mark Girouard
London, Paris, Venice, New York, Rome, Constantinople - the cities of the world have captured man's imagination for generations. In this lively, sumptuously illustrated book, the author of the best-selling 'Life In The English Country House' takes us on a tour of cities and their people through the centuries. Focusing on carefully selected cities ...
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Life in the French Country House
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With all the wit and authority that made his "Life in the English Country House" an enduring classic, Girouard uses letters, diaries, inventories, books of etiquette and scores of photos to conjure up the days and nights of the original inhabitants of French country houses. Illustrations.
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Country House Companion
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Mark Girouard
Mark Girouard has compiled an anthology of personal anecdotes and reminiscences about the English country house by people who lived in them, worked in them, or visited them--from queens to kitchen maids. 90 black-and-white illustrations. 25 color plates.
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Life English Country House
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The Victorian Country House
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English Town: A History of Urban Life
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Town and Country
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In this collection of essays and articles best selling author Mark Girouard writes of places he has visited in town and country. Mixing erudition with anecdote, he offers fascinating insights into both buildings and their inhabitants. He tells how he first became interested in architecture, describes the country houses which he visited as a boy, ...
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Historic houses of Britain
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Mark Girouard
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Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum
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In this book (published in conjunction with the Museum's centenary celebrations) Mark Girouard traces the history of the building from its origins in discussions between Gladstone and Richard Owen (later the first director) in 1861, to its completion in 1881. The story is a tale of scholarly ambition, political intrigue and ingenious technical and ...
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Hardwick Hall
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Victorian pubs
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In Victorian London the reckless abundance of pubs brought comfort, glitter and variety to the drab lives of the poor and a flush of righteous anger to the solemn faces of the Temperance reformers. The agitators made important gains but never achieved the total prohibition they sought. This book celebrates the rise and laments the fall of the ...
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Windsor : the most romantic castle
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Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House
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Mark Girouard
This book by Girouard begins with the general history of Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture and the ideas behind it. Girouard then describes the buildings that can be connected with Robert Smythson and his architect son and grandson, discussing their design and decoration, as well as the personalities who commissioned them.
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Sweetness & Light - Queen Anne 1860-1900
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Mark Girouard
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The Victorian Country House, Second Edition: Revised and Enlarged Edition
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Mark Girouard
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Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860-1900
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Mark Girouard
Mark Girouard describes the 'Queen Anne' movement in all its manifestations, tracing its origin in the 1860s, the spread of its subsequent vogue from London to the provinces, and from England to America, and is fall from grace in the 1890s when it was taken up by architects of pubs and waterside villas.
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A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland: 1837-1921
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Jeremy Williams, Mark Girouard (Foreword by)
Drawing together the history of Victorian architecture in Ireland, this book is a gazetteer in the traditional sense, a list of entries for individual buildings on a country by country basis, heavily illustrated and prefaced by useful maps; the index at the back contains a valuable list of Irish Victorian architects and their works. The entries ...
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Big Jim
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"A remarkable book... A work of social as much as architectural history... A riveting and illuminating biography." - "Spectator" "What makes Girouard a good biographer is that he allows Jim's swashbuckling story to tell itself. And with magnificent restraint, he keeps the buildings as far in the background as they can be in the life of an ...
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Die Stadt. Menschen, Häuser, Plätze. Eine Kulturgeschichte
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Mark Girouard
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La Vie Dans Les Chteaux Franáais, Du Moyen Age Nos Jours
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Mark Girouard
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Robert Smythson and the architecture of the Elizabethan era.
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