Mistress Masham's Repose
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Mistress Masham's Repose is a novel by T. H. White that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of Lilliputians, a race of tiny people from Jonathan Swift's satirical classic Gulliver
First edition (publ. Putnams)
Stowe House, an inspiration for Malplaquet
Field Marshal Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, was a British army officer and Whig politician. After serving as a junior officer under William III during the Williamite War in Ireland and Nine Yea
Mistress Masham's Repose
…another link between the fictional Palace of Malplaquet and the real Blenheim Palace. Blenheim and Stowe are in turn linked to each other, in that Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, who developed the house and gardens at Stowe in the early eighteenth century, was a notable soldier who had served under the Duke of Marlborough. The…
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, c. 1740
Temple's signature and seal on a marriage settlement of 1734