This is a finely researched and written history of the Howard family. Venetia Murray portrays the robust characters that built and lived in Castle Howard as very real people. She describes their political, social, sporting and domestic lives over the last 300 years and includes some mind-boggling detail - on eighteenth century roads it could take 4 days to travel 64 miles which didn't stop them moving constantly between one great house and another.
(Jane Grey-Edwards - bwl 5 October 2000 ) |
