Country Life, 1897-1997: The English Arcadia.

The Magazine Antiques | September 1, 1997| | Copyright

Country Life came into being in 1897 just as country life was, for all intents and purposes, coming to an end in England. The magazine that is a fixture in every club and on the grandest coffee tables has since the beginning painted an idyllic picture of the countryside at odds with reality. As Roy Strong writes in this history of the magazine," The facts behind the popular appeal of this selective and fictional reading of rural values seem only to contradict its paradoxical success. Country Life apotheosised a lifestyle and culture of what was essentially a defeated class - ...

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