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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

National Trust shines light on inner life of 18th-century ‘lady of the house’

Fay Bland looks around a door into a room containing several oil paintings, antique furniture and an ornate fireplace
Fay Bland, the senior programming lead for the National Trust at Nostell, stands between rooms on the Sabine trail. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

In the painted portraits it is all serenity, happiness and domestic bliss. But behind the smiles of 18th-century “lady of the house” Sabine Winn is a different story: one of isolation, loneliness and marital anguish.

The National Trust is to tell, for the first time, the story of Winn at the country house where she lived for 30 years and which brought her profound unhappiness – Nostell, a Palladian mansion near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

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