Knole
The grand life writ small: a history of modern British aristocracy
Prewar, they thought their future was secure, but death duties and heavy taxation brought a huge change in circumstance – to which some have valiantly responded. Pen portraits of peers and historical perspective bring this tale of diminishment to vivid life
Mouldering hats and wedding veils
In deciding to write a book about her forebears and herself, Juliet Nicolson follows in their footsteps. Given that her…
Yearning for Knole
Visitors to the National Trust’s Sissinghurst — the decayed Elizabethan castle transformed by Vita Sackville-West in the early 1930s —…
Led a merry dance
When Robert Sackville-West was writing Inheritance (2010), his history of Knole and the Sackvilles, he was ‘struck’, as he recalls…
Round and round the garden, again
Here’s a book co-authored by one dead woman and one living one. Sarah Raven is the second wife of Adam…
