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Post by alastair on Oct 19, 2011 23:42:42 GMT 1
Anyone know any books about aristocrats or stately homes ? I know about about the Flambards books
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2011 6:32:34 GMT 1
Welcome to the forum The Heron Ride and Return to the Heron Ride by Mary Treadgold centres around a stately home I think.
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Post by Claire on Oct 20, 2011 13:22:19 GMT 1
Hi Alastair - good question!
You probably know of these but I'll mention them anyhow: Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett is perhaps the most well known aristocratic chuildrens story, The Secret Garden by the same author also features the large house Mistlethwaite Manor and of course its gardens!
Less well known is Children of the House by Philippa Pearce and Brian Fairfax-lucy which is a story about the children living at the (real) Charlecote House in Warwickshire before the first world war.
A number of Lorna Hill's books feature castles and their usually Scottish impoverished aristo owners. I think Guy who appears in the Marjorie & Patience series and in Jane Leaves the Wells lives in a castle in Northumbria - would have to double check tho. There are more castle and lairds in the Dancing Peel series by the same author. There are also quite a few rich and aristocratic families in the various ballet books by her but can't recall exactly which ones - anyone?
A few pony books feature aristocrats and posh houses, but not that many considering that critics complain about the genre's elitist attittude. Mainly they are there as a foil to the more down to earth characters:
Three Ponies and Shannan by Diana Pullein-Thompson - Heroine Christina is rich and lives in a big house with servants, altho a lot of the book is set away from the house at a pony club camp.
Henry in the Radney Riding Club by Josephine Pullein-Thompson lives in Radney Manor, so he seems to be pretty upper class but its not really focused on that much.
In All Change, again by Josephine P-T, Lord Charnworth and his son are important characters in the book, tho the story focuses more on the poorer children of his estate manager.
In The First Rosette, Second Mount & Three to Ride by Christine P-T working class David befriends Pat who lives at The Hall, a posh house with a park. They run a riding school together until Pat is drawn away from him by her aristocratic background as she goes off to London to become a debutante.
The Black Loch by Patricia Leitch centres around a scottish castle on a large estate.
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge is also set in a large stately home called Moonacre Manor.
Rider in the Dark by Victoria Holmes - main character Helena is the daughter of a Lord.
Joanna Cannan's They Bought Her a Pony is about the daughter of a very rich man, but I think he is more the nouveau riche than aristocratic!
There's probably lots more but these are all I can think of off the top of my head.
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Post by susanb on Oct 20, 2011 14:03:00 GMT 1
In Riders from Afar by Christine Pullein-Thompson, the English children's family has let the stately manor to some Americans, while they move to the guest cottage? caretakers cottage?
Primrose Cumming's Silver Eagle trilogy has the children turning the family mansion into a riding school
Amateur Horsedealers by Pamela MacGregor Morris has the usual impoverished gentilty that can still afford to keep the family mansion and the horses. Ditto Caroline Akrill's Eventing trilogy (Hoof in the Door, Eventers Dream, Ticket to Ride).
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Post by kunuma on Oct 20, 2011 14:24:15 GMT 1
What was the one about the girl groom going to work for a lord and family in his stately home where they all did jousting? A Job with Horses or similar title??
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Post by garej on Oct 21, 2011 18:49:31 GMT 1
What was the one about the girl groom going to work for a lord and family in his stately home where they all did jousting? A Job with Horses or similar title?? It was A Job With Horses by JPT.
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