MARGARET MEADE-FETHERSTONHAUGH AND OLIVER WARNER - Uppark and Its People

London England, George Allen & Unwin, 1964. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardback Hardback. Uppark and its People. Foxing to edge. Slight wear to edges of D/J. Marks to back D/J. It was built, on a site long inhabited, in the reign of William and Mary for the Earl of Tankerville, a strange character who ran off with his sister-in-law and who fought, unskilfully, in Monmouth's Rebellion. Lady Meade-Fetherstonhaugh and Olver Warner have related the history of the successive people who have lived at Uppark, drawing on letters and documents preserved in the house itself. Particularly illuminating is a series of letters from Repton, and there are glimpses of two other notable characters, Emma Hamilton, who for one short period in her life was Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh's mistress, and H. G. Wells, whose mother was housekeeper at Uppark. Illustrated. 118 pp.