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Our Green and Pleasant Land - Rural Scenes and National Representation: Britain, 1815–1850. By Elizabeth Helsinger. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 290. $45.00. - The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home. By Peter Mandler. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. viii + 523. $45.00. - Country House Life: Family and Servants, 1815–1914. By Jessica Gerard. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994. Pp. x + 370. $56.95.

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Rural Scenes and National Representation: Britain, 1815–1850. By Elizabeth Helsinger. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 290. $45.00.
The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home. By Peter Mandler. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. viii + 523. $45.00.
Country House Life: Family and Servants, 1815–1914. By Jessica Gerard. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994. Pp. x + 370. $56.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

J. V. Beckett
J. V. Beckett*
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University of Nottingham
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 252 - 261
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