COUNTRY HOUSE AND ITS VISITORS (FOUR COURTS) (HB)

Country houses have always been a magnet for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as royalty were self-invited guests. However, houses have also attracted less-welcome incomers: looters, arsonists, emigrés, revolutionaries, and the politically undesirable. This volume explores the many kinds of visitors who have crossed the thresholds of country houses, and how they have recorded their impressions – whether in sketches, journals, guest-books, works of fiction, or photographs.