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Book Vanished Houses of Cornwall

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  • Author : Rosemary Anne Lauder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780952864516
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Vanished Houses of Cornwall written by Rosemary Anne Lauder and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vanished Houses of North Devon

Download or read book Vanished Houses of North Devon written by Rosemary Lauder and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vanished Houses of North Devon

Download or read book Vanished Houses of North Devon written by Rosemary Anne Lauder and published by . This book was released on 1981-12-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Houses and Gardens of Cornwall

Download or read book Houses and Gardens of Cornwall written by Helen McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lives of Houses

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  • Author : Kate Kennedy
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-04-12
  • ISBN : 0691214875
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Lives of Houses written by Kate Kennedy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially fascinated by the houses of the famous and often long-dead? In Lives of Houses, notable biographers, historians, critics, and poets explores these questions and more through fascinating essays on the houses of great writers, artists, composers, and politicians of the past. Editors Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee are joined by wide-ranging contributors, including Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, David Cannadine, Roy Foster, Alexandra Harris, Daisy Hay, Margaret MacMillan, Alexander Masters, and Jenny Uglow. We encounter W. H. Auden, living in joyful squalor in New York's St. Mark's Place, and W. B. Yeats in his flood-prone tower in the windswept West of Ireland. We meet Benjamin Disraeli, struggling to keep up appearances, and track the lost houses of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen. We visit Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, England, and Jean Sibelius at Ainola, Finland. But Lives of Houses also considers those who are unhoused, unwilling or unable to establish a home—from the bewildered poet John Clare wandering the byways of England to the exiled Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera living on the streets of London. With more than forty illustrations, Lives of Houses illuminates what houses mean to us and how we use them to connect to and think about the past. The result is a fresh and engaging look at house and home. Featuring Alexandra Harris on moving house ● Susan Walker on Morocco's ancient Roman House of Venus ● Hermione Lee on biographical quests for writers’ houses ● Margaret MacMillan on her mother's Toronto house ● a poem by Maura Dooley, "Visiting Orchard House, Concord, Massachusetts"—the house in which Louisa May Alcott wrote and set her novel Little Women ● Felicity James on William and Dorothy Wordsworth's Dove Cottage ● Robert Douglas-Fairhurst at home with Tennyson ● David Cannadine on Winston Churchill's dream house, Chartwell ● Jenny Uglow on Edward Lear at San Remo's Villa Emily ● Lucy Walker on Benjamin Britten at Aldeburgh, England ● Seamus Perry on W. H. Auden at 77 St. Mark's Place, New York City ● Rebecca Bullard on Samuel Johnson's houses ● a poem by Simon Armitage, "The Manor" ● Daisy Hay at home with the Disraelis ● Laura Marcus on H. G. Wells at Uppark ● Alexander Masters on the fear of houses ● Elleke Boehmer on sites associated with Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera ● Kate Kennedy on the mental asylums where World War I poet Ivor Gurney spent the last years of his life ● a poem by Bernard O'Donoghue, "Safe Houses" ● Roy Foster on W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee ● Sandra Mayer on W. H. Auden's Austrian home ● Gillian Darley on John Soane and the autobiography of houses ● Julian Barnes on Jean Sibelius and Ainola

Book England s Lost Houses

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  • Author : Giles Worsley
  • Publisher : White Lion Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book England s Lost Houses written by Giles Worsley and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the photographs in Country Life's archives, none are more poignant or intriguing than the images of houses that have been lost. This text puts the lost country houses of England in historical context and explains why so many were destroyed.

Book The House on the Strand

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  • Author : Daphne du Maurier
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2000-02-14
  • ISBN : 9780812217261
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The House on the Strand written by Daphne du Maurier and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-02-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prime du Maurier. . . . She holds her characters close to reality; the past she creates is valid, and her skill in finessing the time shifts is enough to make one want to try a little of the brew."—New York Times

Book Trelawny   s Cornwall

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  • Author : Petroc Trelawny
  • Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Release : 2024-08-15
  • ISBN : 1474625118
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Trelawny s Cornwall written by Petroc Trelawny and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall's most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unofficial national anthem. But when a stranger challenges the Radio 3 presenter on his ancestry, he is inspired to return to the lands of his boyhood to rediscover the place where he grew up, and attempt to confirm if he still belongs there. Part history, part memoir, this is a deeply felt exploration of Cornwall - past, present and future. Petroc embarks on a slow journey that sees him visit old mine workings, ancient churches, sites where new technology was forged, and places where poets, musicians, architects and film makers have worked to shape Cornwall's cultural identity. He explores the Tamar, the river that marks out the Cornish frontier, and holds a finger up to winds of change, exploring the collapse of Methodism, the decline of the Cornish language, and the complex , sometimes lucrative, sometimes destructive, relationship with tourism. As he travels by road, rail and foot, he conjures marvellously vivid figures and scenes from memory, telling the stories of a loving family full of mysteries and a landscape still redolent of 'Cornish otherness'.

Book The House in Cornwall

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  • Author : Noel Streatfeild
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1951
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book The House in Cornwall written by Noel Streatfeild and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages

Download or read book Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages written by Andrew Abram and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the history of the numerous houses of monks, canons and nuns which existed in the medieval British Isles, considering them in their wider socio-cultural-economic context; historians are now questioning some of the older assumptions about monastic life in the later Middle Ages, and setting new approaches and new agenda. The present volume reflects these new trends. Its fifteen chapters assess diverse aspects of monastic history, focusing on the wide range of contacts which existed between religious communities and the laity in the later medieval British Isles, covering a range of different religious orders and houses. This period has often been considered to represent a general decline of the regular life; but on the contrary, the essays here demonstrate that there remained a rich monastic culture which, although different from that of earlier centuries, remained vibrant. CONTRIBUTORS: KAREN STOBER, JULIE KERR, EMILIA JAMROZIAK, MARTIN HEALE, COLMAN O CLABAIGH, ANDREW ABRAM, MICHAEL HICKS, JANET BURTON, KIMM PERKINS-CURRAN, JAMES CLARK, GLYN COPPACK, JENS ROHRKASTEN, SHEILA SWEETINBURGH, NICHOLAS ORME, CLAIRE CROSS

Book The Cornishman s House

Download or read book The Cornishman s House written by V. M. Chesher and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Houses of Cornwall

Download or read book Two Houses of Cornwall written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anderson   s Travel Companion

Download or read book Anderson s Travel Companion written by Compiled by Sarah Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best in travel writing, with both fiction and non-fiction presented together, this companion is for all those who like travelling, like to think about travelling, and who take an interest in their destination. It covers guidebooks as well as books about food, history, art and architecture, religion, outdoor activities, illustrated books, autobiographies, biographies and fiction and lists books both in and out of print. Anderson's Travel Companion is arranged first by continent, then alphabetically by country and then by subject, cross-referenced where necessary. There is a separate section for guidebooks and comprehensive indexes. Sarah Anderson founded the Travel Bookshop in 1979 and is also a journalist and writer on travel subjects. She is known by well-known travel writers such as Michael Palin and Colin Thubron. Michael Palin chose her bookshop as his favourite shop and Colin Thubron and Geoffrey Moorhouse, among others, made suggestions for titles to include in the Travel Companion.

Book A History of Cornwall Houses and Their Inhabitants

Download or read book A History of Cornwall Houses and Their Inhabitants written by Stuart T. Witherell and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Houses  Castles and Gardens in Cornwall

Download or read book Historic Houses Castles and Gardens in Cornwall written by and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gaverocks

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  • Author : Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book The Gaverocks written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The House in Cornwall

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  • Author : Noel Streatfield
  • Publisher : Atlantic Books
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN : 9780411808501
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book The House in Cornwall written by Noel Streatfield and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: