Ep57: The Thing About Mrs. Reynolds' House Tours

We're headed back to Pemberley for this episode, where a gracious Mrs. Reynolds is ready to welcome us. We cover the history of country house tours and the role that someone like Mrs. Reynolds would play in facilitating such visits. If you have ever awkwardly run into your almost future fiancé at their house, this episode is for you.

Selected Sources:

• Aslet, Clive. The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.
• Girouard, Mark. Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
• Lupton, Christina. “Notes.” In Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, edited by James Kinsley. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• MacArthur, Rosie. “Gentlemen Tourists in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Travels of William Hanbury and John Scattergood.” In Travel and the British Country House: Cultures, Critiques and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Jon Stobart. Manchester (GB): Manchester University Press, 2017.
• Rothery, Mark. “Country House Visiting: Past, Present, and Future.” OUPblog, October 1, 2016. https://blog.oup.com/2016/10/country-house-visiting-jane-austen/.
• Stobart, Jon. Travel and the British Country House: Cultures, Critiques and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century. Manchester (GB): Manchester University Press, 2017.​