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18 de feb. de 2021 · James Lees-Milne at Posillipo(George) James Henry Lees-Milne, born 6 August 1908, was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National Trust from 1936 to 1973. He was an architectural historian, novelist and biographer. His extensive diaries remain in print.James and his mother HelenLees-Milne was born on 6 August 1908 at Wickhamford Manor, Worcestershire. His ...
1 de nov. de 2009 · James Lees-Milne (1908 1997) 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 20th-century Pepys."
- Michael Bloch
24 de feb. de 2014 · By 1931, through making connections with the likes of Tom Mitford, Basil Ava, Randolph Churchill and his relative Oswald Moseley, James Lees-Milne began to despair about his future and dreamed of a career in literature. Milne’s private life was wrought with troubling events, as his cousin became pregnant with his child and later miscarried ...
19 de may. de 2020 · Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne. The Life. I read the first volume of James Lees-Milne’s edited diaries, Ancestral Voices, which cover the years 1942-43, and was both repelled by his spiky and judgemental personality, and intrigued by his account of social history and the Blitz experience. But the diaries were very edited, and JLM assumed ...
James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his adult life, which has been compared with that of Samuel Pepys and hailed as 'a treasure of contemporary English literature'.
James Lees-Milne. James Lees-Milne (1908-1997) foi um escritor inglês, perito em casas de campo inglesas. Foi um influente historiador de arquitectura, romancista e destacado biógrafo. A sua prolongada influência suporta-se no facto de que foi, também, um dos mais importantes diarista do século XX.
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