Blenheim: Biography of a Palace

Type

Book

Authors

Fowler, Marian

ISBN 10

067082027X

ISBN 13

9780670820276

Tags

Great Britain, World

Abstract

A popular biography of the greatest English house from its conception to the burial of Winston Churchill. Using the vast Blenheim papers has been able to trace the history not just of its famous inhabitants but also of the building itself and those who have kept it functioning over the years.

Description

A popular biography of the greatest English house from its conception and building in the opening decade of the eighteenth century to the burial of Winston Churchill in the early 1960s. Using the vast Blenheim papers (now in the British Museum) together with local Oxfordshire documents and archives Marian Fowler has been able to trace the history not just of its famous inhabitants but also of the building itself and the thousands of servants and workmen who have kept it functioning over the years. There will be four long core chapters each taking a specific event at Blenheim (the first is a theatrical performance of a Dryden play put on by his grandchildren for the almost senile first Duke of Marlborough) and moving out from that to general description of the place and its inhabitants at that time. The four events will each be separated by about 60 years.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Nonfiction
History (form)
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Fowler, Marian, 1929-
Blenheim.
London : Viking, 1989
(OCoLC)654686039
Named Person: Churchill (Famille)
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marian Fowler

ISBN: 067082027X 9780670820276
OCLC Number: 21406976
Description: 272 pages : illustrations, 1 plan, portraits ; 25 cm
Responsibility: Marian Fowler.

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