Katherine's House

Product Description

Kettlethorpe, a modest little group of buildings deep in the English countryside, has housed many lives woven of great events & private joys & griefs. It was the home of Katherine Swynford, perhaps the most romantic figure of medieval times, but before & after her of knights & farmers, soldiers & lawyers, maids & maidservants, whose footsteps echo through the house's history. In telling the story of Kettlethorpe, this story touches on some of the greatest events in our history, from the Danish invasion & the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Lincoln Fair, the Pilgrimage of Grace & the Civil War. These were events that took place on Kettlethorpe's doorstep. It passes through the great days of the Georgian country house to the fate of a converted ruin, a farmhouse & dower house for a hunting widow, keeping the estate going until close to the outbreak of the Second World War. A war in which, once more, Lincolnshire
- " Bomber County"
- would play such an important part. What's more, this is a story not about the great or whom grand houses were built, but about what Cromwell called "the middling sort"
- a little up in some generations, down in others, but with lives always within the compass of our imagination.