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Castle Howard is an English country house in Henderskelfe, North Yorkshire, 15 miles (24 km) north of York.A private residence, it has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of Charles Ryder, especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion, Brideshead Castle.
Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews.It was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. . Significant elements of it were directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who handled the initial phases of the production, before Charles Sturridge carried on with the
The present building is largely a Victorian reconstruction, although the origins of the present house are from the 16th century, and the site has been occupied since Anglo-Saxon times. The novelist Evelyn Waugh was a frequent visitor to the house and based the family of Marchmain, who are central to his novel Brideshead Revisited, on the
Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. ... Here, in one house, is a fading empire. In the movie, it's just sublime real estate."
The present house was built by John Wallington at the very end of the 18th century. It incorporates elements of an older building. [2]Evelyn Waugh lived at Piers Court from 1937 to 1956, and wrote many of his best known works there, including Scoop, Brideshead Revisited, Men at Arms and Officers and Gentlemen.
In Work Suspended and Other Stories Waugh introduced "real" characters and a first-person narrator, signalling the literary style he would adopt in Brideshead Revisited a few years later. [216] Brideshead , which questions the meaning of human existence without God, is the first novel in which Evelyn Waugh clearly presents his conservative ...
The exterior appears as Marchmain House in the 1981 television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited and as Grantham House, the Crawleys’ London house, in the TV historical drama series Downton Abbey. [7]