Nearly a century's worth of letters - and time and again we get from them a sense of intimacy, for the Lennox sisters write in a way that makes us feel close to them, and they write about things that are as important to us as they were to them. a story of high politics, romance, family life, and tragedy that begins in 1744, as the Jacobites were planning their last, desperate assault on the Hanoverian throne, and ends in 1832, five years before the beginning of the Victorian Age. No one could describe Aristocrats more succinctly or accurately than does Tillyard herself, in her preface:Īristocrats "tells. In telling the story of the four aristocratic Lennox sisters, Stella Tillyard touches upon both the grand and the ordinary, finding in their massive correspondence and other documents the raw material of a genuinely universal narrative. THIS SINGULAR and remarkable book may seem at superficial glance to trade upon the fascination that draws certain Americans to the affairs of upper-class Great Britain - the "Masterpiece Theatre" syndrome, if you will - but there is far more to it than that.
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