“The door to the library stood open, and she moved unobtrusively through.” (March 20, 1814)

While the general layout of Hawksfield Manor follows that of Firle Place, the dining room, drawing room, and library are modelled on nearby Courteenhall.

I was surprised, when checking my data before posting, that Mark Girouard's Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History dates from 1978. His magisterial study of the subject is a highly enjoyable read, too! The same goes for Amanda Vickery's The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England, published in 1998.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Portrait of Doctor Herman Frithiof Antell, 1886, detail

(by courtesy of Suomen valtio / Museovirasto)