Lives of houses
Kennedy, Kate Ed.
Lives of houses - New Jersey Princeton University Press 2022 - xvii,297p.
Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xiii
HERMIONE LEE
Houses Lost and Found
1 Moving House 3
ALEXANDRA HARRIS
2 Built on Memory 18
SUSAN WALKER
3 A House of Air 30
HERMIONE LEE
Family Houses
4 My Mother's House 47
MARGARET MACMILLAN
5 At Orchard House 52
MAURA DOOLEY
6 Romantic Home 55
FELICITY JAMES
Dream Houses
7 At Home with Tennyson 71
ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST
8 Chartwell: Winston Churchill's Dream House 82
DAVID CANNADINE
Creative Houses
9 The Quangle Wangle's Hat 95
JENNY UGLOW
10 Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh 109
LUCY WALKER
11 77 St. Mark's Place 124
SEAMUS PERRY
12 Samuel Johnson's Houses 133
REBECCA BULLARD
House-Proud
13 The Manor 149
SIMON ARMITAGE
14 At Home with the Disraelis 151
DAISY HAY
15 H . G. Wells at Uppark 160
LAURA MARCUS
Unhoused
16 The Fear of Houses 177
ALEXANDER MASTERS
17 When There Is No House to Visit 189
ELLEKE BOEHMER
18 "A Place One Can Go Mad In" 201
KATE KENNEDY
19 Safe Houses 213
BERNARD O'DONOGHUE
The Afterlives of Houses
20 "When All Is Ruin Once Again" 217
ROY FOSTER
21 W H. Auden in Austria 232
SANDRA MAYER
22 John Soane and House Autobiography 246
GILLIAN DARLEY
23 Ainola: Music and Silence 257
JULIAN BARNES
Acknowled9ements 264
List of Contributors 265
Notes 273
Index 289
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Dwellings in art
Dwellings--Social aspects
Dwellings in literature
Celebrities--Homes and haunts
Historic buildings
Artists--Homes and haunts
Literary landmarks
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Lives of houses - New Jersey Princeton University Press 2022 - xvii,297p.
Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xiii
HERMIONE LEE
Houses Lost and Found
1 Moving House 3
ALEXANDRA HARRIS
2 Built on Memory 18
SUSAN WALKER
3 A House of Air 30
HERMIONE LEE
Family Houses
4 My Mother's House 47
MARGARET MACMILLAN
5 At Orchard House 52
MAURA DOOLEY
6 Romantic Home 55
FELICITY JAMES
Dream Houses
7 At Home with Tennyson 71
ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST
8 Chartwell: Winston Churchill's Dream House 82
DAVID CANNADINE
Creative Houses
9 The Quangle Wangle's Hat 95
JENNY UGLOW
10 Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh 109
LUCY WALKER
11 77 St. Mark's Place 124
SEAMUS PERRY
12 Samuel Johnson's Houses 133
REBECCA BULLARD
House-Proud
13 The Manor 149
SIMON ARMITAGE
14 At Home with the Disraelis 151
DAISY HAY
15 H . G. Wells at Uppark 160
LAURA MARCUS
Unhoused
16 The Fear of Houses 177
ALEXANDER MASTERS
17 When There Is No House to Visit 189
ELLEKE BOEHMER
18 "A Place One Can Go Mad In" 201
KATE KENNEDY
19 Safe Houses 213
BERNARD O'DONOGHUE
The Afterlives of Houses
20 "When All Is Ruin Once Again" 217
ROY FOSTER
21 W H. Auden in Austria 232
SANDRA MAYER
22 John Soane and House Autobiography 246
GILLIAN DARLEY
23 Ainola: Music and Silence 257
JULIAN BARNES
Acknowled9ements 264
List of Contributors 265
Notes 273
Index 289
9780691193663
Dwellings in art
Dwellings--Social aspects
Dwellings in literature
Celebrities--Homes and haunts
Historic buildings
Artists--Homes and haunts
Literary landmarks
392.36 / KEN