James Lees-Milne (1908–1997)

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1. James Lees-Milne

   Author of Another Self, Prophesying Peace, Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1992

2. Nancy Mitford

   Author of Madame de Pompadour, The Sun King, Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford

3. Vita Sackville-West

   Author of The Edwardians, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

4. Harold Nicolson

   Author of Diaries and Letters, Vol. 2: The War Years, 1939-1945, Some People, Harold Nicolson the Later Years Diaries and Letters 1945-1962

5. Osbert Sitwell

   Author of Left hand right hand! An autobiography. Vol. 1: The cruel month, The Scarlet Tree, Laughter in the Next Room

6. Frances Partridge

   Author of Memories, Frances Partridge Diaries 1939-1972, Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972-1975: Volume 7

7. Cecil Beaton

   Author of The Unexpurgated Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries, Self portrait with friends: The selected diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926-1974

8. Evelyn Waugh

   Author of A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper, 1932-66

9. Harold Acton

   Author of Nancy Mitford: A Memoir, Memoirs of an Aesthete, More Memoirs of an Aesthete

10. Miss Read

    Author of The School at Thrush Green, A Peaceful Retirement (Fairacre), Life At Thrush Green

11. Michael Wharton

    Author of The Missing Will: An Autobiography (Slightly Foxed Editions)

12. Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Author of Between the Woods and the Water, Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece, In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor

13. Henry James

    Author of Cathedrals and Castles (English Journeys)

14. Ted Walker

    Author of The High Path

15. Michael Bloch

    Author of James Lees-Milne: The Life

16. John Stewart Collis

    Author of The Wood (English Journeys)

17. Ronald Blythe

    Author of Voices of Akenfield (English Journeys)

18. Michael Jenkins

    Author of A House in Flanders

19. Gertrude Jekyll

    Author of The Beauties of a Cottage Garden (English Journeys)

20. Richard Jefferies

    Author of Walks in the Wheat-fields (English Journeys)