106 pages : illustrations, portraits (some color) ; 28 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction: 'Secret springs' : unlocking the histories of the women of the Yorkshire country house / Ruth M. Larsen -- Emerging from the shadows : maids and mistresses at Brodsworth Hall / Virginia Arrowsmith and Caroline Carr-Whitworth -- A soldier's wife : Lady Chichester / Geraldine M. Mulcahy -- Isabella, fourth Countess of Carlisle : no life by halves / Christopher Ridgway -- Some Lascelles ladies / Karen Lynch -- Mary Isabella and Elizabeth Gascoigne, parallel lives : philanthropy, art and leisure in the Victorian era / Adam White -- Love, rebellion and redemption : three generations of women at Nostell Priory / Christopher Todd and Sophie Raikes -- Temple Newsam : a woman's domain / James Lomax.
Subject Terms:
Women -- England -- Yorkshire -- Exhibitions. | Country homes -- England -- Yorkshire -- Exhibitions. | Country life -- England -- Yorkshire -- Exhibitions. | Country homes. | Country life. | Women. | England -- Yorkshire.
Form/Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Contributors:
Larsen, Ruth M., editor. | Yorkshire Country House Partnership.