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of James Lees-Milne James Lees-Milne's two volumes of diaries, Ancestral Voices (1975) and Prophesying Peace (1977), cover the war years 1942-45, during which the author, an invalid from the army, worked for the National Trust as a kind of field representative. When country houses were offered to the Trust, Lees-Milne would travel to them for ...
James Lees-Milne (1908-97) - known to friends as Jim - is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures, and for the vivid and entertaining diaries which have earned him a reputation as 'the twentieth-century Pepys'.
1 de ene. de 1970 · James Lees-Milne. James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) was an English writer and expert on country houses. He was a noted biographer and historian, and is also considered one of the twentieth century's great diarists. He came from a family of landed gentry and grew up in Worcestershire. He attended Lockers Park Prep School, Eton and Oxford University.
27 de sept. de 2009 · James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) is known, first, as one of the great diarists of the 20th century and, second, for his heroic efforts in preserving dilapidated country houses for the National Trust.
To read more about the accomplishments of James Lees-Milne, you will find the 1997 obituary that ran in The Independent here. You’ll understand when I tell you that I was prepared to like these Diaries before I’d read Page 1, but I wasn’t prepared to find that so many of the entries would resonate with me on a personal level.
8 de dic. de 2011 · James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch John Murray Press , Dec 8, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 512 pages The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'.
Although James Lees-Milne aspired to be a writer from his earliest years, he was almost middle-aged before he got a book into print. His first title, The Age of Adam, was published by Batsford in 1947, when he was thirty-eight. There followed two further works of architectural history, Tudor Renaissance (1951) and The Age of Inigo Jones (1953).
