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2 unusual facts about Country Life


Herbert Cowley

He appears also to have written garden articles for Country Life after 1911.

Marianne Majerus

Her photographs appear regularly in Country Life, The Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, House & Garden, Homes and Gardens, The Evening Standard (London), The RHS Garden Journal, The English Garden, Gardens Illustrated, as well as many garden magazines in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, Poland, Slovenia, the United States, Australia and Japan.


Alison Kervin

She has also worked as a journalist for publications as diverse as The Spectator, New Statesman, Company, Woman’s Own, Vogue, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, That's Life, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, Country Life and Tatler.

Aske Hall

Aske Hall's history has been well documented, notably in Richmond Architecture and in a two-part article by Giles Worsley published in Country Life in March 1990.

Harold Falkner

The latter was the subject of two fine articles in Country Life by Clive Aslet.


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António Ferreira

Ferreira took his doctor's degree on July 14, 1555, an event which was celebrated, according to custom, by a sort of Roman triumph, and he stayed on as a professor, finding Coimbra, with its picturesque environs, congenial to his poetical tastes and love of a country life.

Chiang Yee

The Silent Traveller in London (London: Country Life, 1938 reprinted Signal, 2001), six impressions by 1945.

Christopher Hussey

Hussey's series of monographs on selected houses and a series The Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge collected material drawn from his Country Life articles, offered in more permanent format: Petworth House, Clarence House, London, Ely House, London, Berkeley Castle, Eton College, Shugborough were all given the Hussey treatment, and they demonstrate the range of his competence.

Giles Worsley

In 1994 he left Country Life to take over from Dan Cruickshank as Editor of the recently created Perspectives on Architecture monthly magazine, funded by Prince Charles through his Institute of Architecture.

Gregory Tesser

In 2011, the year of the Rugby World Cup, he not only wrote a preview of the tournament for Country Life, but also penned a piece for The Jewish Chronicle on the many Jewish players that have lit up the game since before the First World War.

Gunning, New South Wales

Millicent Armstrong was a playwright and farmer in Gunning, New South Wales, who wrote primarily about the experiences of country life in early 20th century Australia.

Horton Kirby

Horton Kirby Environmental Studies Centre provides nature and country life-related outdoor activities for schoolchildren from South London.

Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee is famously mentioned in Hank Williams Jr.'s number one Billboard country hit song "Dixie on My Mind", when comparing country life to big city life: "I've always heard lots about the big apple / So I thought I'd come up here and see. / But all I've seen so far is one big hassle / wish I was camped out on the Okeechobee'".

Louis d'Elbée

He embarked on a military career, reaching the rank of lieutenant, but resigned from the army in 1783 and married, thereafter living a retired country life near Beaupréau in Anjou.

Lu You

Watson compares a second body of work, poems on country life and growing old, to those of Bai Juyi (白居易) and Tao Qian (陶潛).

Lucien Fabre

Born near Carmaux in the Segala Tarn, he kept all his life a deep affection for country life that grounded his childhood.

National Museum of Rural Life

National Museums Scotland and partners have developed the National Museum of Rural Life, previously known as the Museum of Scottish Country Life, which is based at Wester Kittochside farm, lying between the town of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire and the village of Carmunnock in Glasgow.

The Yetties

The Yetties now live in Sherborne (just a few miles from Yetminster) and they draw on their personal experiences of country life for their concert programme.

WaterTower Theatre

It has produced 5 world premieres including the musicals Song of Motherhood and Blind Lemon: Prince of Country Blues, and the plays Free Fall (with Sandy Duncan), Baptized to the Bone by Dave Johnson, and A Country Life, Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin’s southern adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.