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Opere di Robert Sackville-West

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Nome canonico
Sackville-West, Robert
Nome legale
Sackville-West, Robert Bertrand
7th Baron Sackville
Data di nascita
1958-07-10
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
UK
Luogo di residenza
Knole, Kent, England, UK
Istruzione
Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK
Magdalen College, Oxford
London Business School
Attività lavorative
publisher
author
management consultant
Organizzazioni
Toucan Books
Sevenoaks School
Knole Academy
International Baccalaureate UK Board
Breve biografia
After studying history at Oxford University, Robert Sackville-West founded Toucan Books, which creates illustrated non-fiction books for an international market. In 2008, Lord Sackville and his wife and three children moved into Knole in Kent, the house that has been inhabited continuously by 13 generations of the Sackville family for 400 years.
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An interestign biography of a house. Not riveting, but delightful to have an insider's perspective on the progression of these houses through their noble family lines.
 
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jennybeast | 3 altre recensioni | Apr 14, 2022 |
Biography of a house and the family history of those who loved it. Working backwards from Vita Sackville-West lover of Virginia Woolf and wife of diarist Harold Nicolson, I read about her childhood home and its history...lovely pictures which led to YouTube looking at films of the interior of the house and its treasures. It was an interesting family that managed to get next to power and milk it for all it was worth down through history.
 
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Karen74Leigh | 3 altre recensioni | Apr 23, 2020 |
The history of Knole and its aristocratic owners the Sackville family as told by Robert Sackville-West the 7th Lord Sackville. Eminently readable, Robert Sackville-West’s recounting reveals the myths, legends, sorrows, and injustices endured by a family that has only once in some 400 years been able to pass on the inheritance of Knole through four direct male heirs. Knole’s owners have abundantly passed on their X chromosomes but have been spectacularly unsuccessful with their Y chromosomes, so much so it has been almost expected for inheritance to slip sideways from uncle to nephew. Knole was one of the very first great houses to pass into the keeping of the National Trust and Robert Sackville-West is very generous in his description of the relationship between the owners, the estate, and the Trust. "… (altro)
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ShelleyAlberta | 3 altre recensioni | Jun 4, 2016 |
This book wasn't quite what I had expected, much more about the history of the Sackvilles than about Knole itself and not enough photographs, drawings, maps or floorplans etc to give one an idea of the place. All we get is the author's words (well-written ones, but still) and some paintings of the former inhabitants.

Things improve in the last third of the book when the author's own memories of the house are brought to light as well as other eye-witness accounts (especially those of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf) but I really would've wished for more details (and illustrations) concerning the house, gardens, estate and every-day life rather then the political and economical wranglings of the Sackvilles. I understand the author's fascination with his family history but for an outsider Knole the house is far more interesting.… (altro)
 
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Vaysh | 3 altre recensioni | Jan 7, 2013 |

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Recensioni
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ISBN
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