Discover English Country House Style

Gather that Nancy Lancaster (born in US 1897) codified what is known as the English country-house look. She was a noted 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, an influential British decorating firm.

Martin Wood wrote a coffe table book about her: Nancy Lancaster: English Country House Style. At Google Books you can thumb through the book and her life:
http://books.google.nl/books?id=gz1xSJvbswYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Nancy+Lancaster:+English+Country+House+Style&hl=nl&ei=Ze8FTfv3MYOCOv-mpKYB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Learn an English expression

'Close your eyes and think of England.'
It's 'an expression used in the United Kingdom referring to unwanted sexual intercourse. Usually from ones spouse.

Brenda: I hate having sex with George.

Lucy: Just close your eyes and think of England.'

Not very reliable sources say it's a sentence from the diary of Lady Alice Hilligdon, a British baroness (1857-1940):

"I am happy now that George calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week, and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs, and think of England."

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