A signed first edition in excellent condition. This gem of a book offers a glimpse into a world in which Downton Abbey meets late Victorian Anglo-Catholicism. James Lomax writes the first biography of Emily Meynell Ingram (1840-1904), a major Victorian artist, architectural patron, yachtswoman, and châtelaine (a woman who oversees a large country house) in rural Staffordshire. Emily inherited substantial wealth in her own right as the daughter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but still more after the early death of her husband Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram (1822-1871) after just eight years of marriage during which the couple had no children. James Lomaxcurator for three decades of the Meynell Ingram country house at Temple Newsamis a master of the material available for a biography of Emily Meynell Ingram. This book is in excellent, as new condition. It is signed by the author on the title page.