The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman

History

Girouard, Mr. Mark

Europe

Yale University Press

Describes the Queen Anne movement, in architecture, furnishings, gardens, and picture books, and examines schools, businesses, and homes constructed in this style

Sweetness and Light: The "Queen Anne" Movement, 1860-1900

A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible

The Victorian Country House

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Americas

This social and aesthetic history of the world's major cities from antiquity to the present focuses on crucial periods of the cities' past and examines their architecture in light of the men and women who used it

Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History

Traces the development of English city life from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century through characteristic buildings and sites such as markets, assembly rooms, streets, and factories

The English Town: A History of Urban Life

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, provides an authoritative interpretation of the origins of English rococo art, analyzes the formation of an English seaside resort, recreates the Georgian architecture and polite society of Jane Austen's world, and traces changing attitudes toward the landscape in architecture from eighteenth-century Britain to twentieth-century America. Old Slaughter's Coffee-House in the mid-eighteenth century; Holdenby, an Elizabethan great house built by a royal favourite who was called by one of his contemporaries "a mere vegetable of the court that sprung up at night and sank again at noon"; Belvedere, the eighteenth-century Irish country house that was witness to a tragic story of adultery and revenge: these are just a few of the buildings described by Girouard in these delightful essays on architecture and society in bygone eras in England and Ireland. Written with his customary wit and elegance, this collection of Girouard's finest essays illuminates not only architecture and social history but also the man who has explored both with such elan.

Town and Country

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Books by Girouard, Mr. Mark

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The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman

Sweetness and Light: The "Queen Anne" Movement, 1860-1900

The Victorian Country House

The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman

Cities and People: A Social and Architectural History

The English Town: A History of Urban Life

Town and Country