Lives of Houses

Notable writers including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes and Jenny Uglow celebrate prevalent interest in the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers and politicians, with each contributor exploring a well-known person's storied residence. *Also appeared in March Buyer's Notes*

About the author

Kate Kennedy, a writer and broadcaster, is Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and Research Fellow in Music and English at Wolfson College, both at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney (Princeton). Hermione Lee is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. Her many books include biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Penelope Fitzgerald, and Tom Stoppard.

Summary

A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past.

Additional text

"[A] favorite book about home and place."---Frances Mayes, Garden & Gun

Product details

• Authors: Kate Lee Kennedy, Hermione Kennedy Lee
• Assisted by: Kate Kennedy (Editor), Kennedy Kate (Editor), Hermione Lee (Editor), Lee Hermione (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9780691193663
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19366-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Essays, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Literary essays, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Literature: history and criticism