Mistress of the house : great ladies and grand houses, 1670-1830
Baird, Rosemary2003
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The roles of women as wives, chatelaines and keepers-up of fashion in the great power houses of 17th- and 18th-century Britain is the subject of this study. Rosemary Baird has selected 10 women whose married state as consorts to powerful men required them to take on a wide variety of roles.
Main title:
Mistress of the house : great ladies and grand houses, 1670-1830 / Rosemary Baird.
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Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.
Collation:
xvi, 320 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims. (some col.), plans, ports. (some col.)
ISBN:
0297830783 (hbk)
Local class:
305.48210941
Language:
English
BRN:
1744949
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