The publication of the diaries of successive generations of the Grove family is of considerable importance. Spanning more than a century from 1809 to 1925, they chart the rise of an English family from country gentry to aristocratic Victorian grandees before finally tracing the much steeper trajectory of the family's decline.
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The publication of the diaries of successive generations of the Grove family is of considerable importance. Spanning more than a century from 1809 to 1925, they chart the rise of an English family from country gentry to aristocratic Victorian grandees before finally tracing the much steeper trajectory of the family's decline.
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Publisher:
Dovecote Press & University of Delaware Press
Published:
1995
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17118823951
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Dovecote Press & University of Delaware Press, 1995. Crisp and unmarked, NF/NF. Full cloth binding. 375pp. Very nice jacket now in a new mylar cover. The publication of the diaries of successive generations of the Grove family is of considerable importance. Spanning more than a century, from 1809 to 1925, and described by one scholar as 'like a Jane Austen novel, but for real', they chart the rise of a Wiltshire/Dorset border family from county gentry to aristocratic Victorian grandees, before finally tracing the much steeper trajectory of the family's decline. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
