{"product_id":"9780552772389-madresfield","title":"Madresfield","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne house, one family, one thousand years\u003cbr\u003eThe house and the family were the real inspiration for \u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited: \u003c\/i\u003eEvelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons.\u003cbr\u003eNever before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned and lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book, and, unusually, remains in the family's hands to this day. Inside, it is a very private, unmistakably English, manor house; a lived-in family home where the bejewelled sits next to the threadbare. The house and the family were the real inspiration for \u003ci\u003eBrideshead Revisited: \u003c\/i\u003eEvelyn Waugh was a regular visitor, and based his story of the doomed Marchmain family on the Lygons.\u003cbr\u003eNever before open to the public, the doors of Madresfield have now swung open to allow Jane Mulvagh to explore its treasures and secrets. And so the rich, dramatic history of one landed family unfolds in parallel with the history of England itself over a millennium, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot; through the tale of the disputed legacy that inspired Dickens' Bleak House; to the secret love behind Elgar's Enigma Variations; and the story of the scandal of Lord Beauchamp, the disgraced 7th Earl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943466381409,"sku":"9780552772389","price":16.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32334450.jpg?v=1749549618","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780552772389-madresfield","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}