Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Preface Hermione Lee xiii
Houses Lost and Found
1 Moving House Alexandra Harris 3
2 Built on Memory Susan Walker 18
3 A House of Air Hermione Lee 30
Family Houses
4 My Mother's House Margaret MacMillan 47
5 At Orchard House Maura Dooley 52
6 Romantic Home Felicity James 55
Dream Houses
7 At Home with Tennyson Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 71
8 Chartwell: Winston Churchill's Dream House David Cannadine 82
Creative Houses
9 The Quangle Wangle's Hat Jenny Uglow 95
10 Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh Lucy Walker 109
11 77 St. Mark's Place Seamus Perry 124
12 Samuel Johnson's Houses Rebecca Bullard 133
House-Proud
13 The Manor Simon Armitage 149
14 At Home with the Disraelis Daisy Hay 151
15 H. G. Wells at Uppark Laura Marcus 160
Unhoused
16 The Fear of Houses Alexander Masters 177
17 When There Is No House to Visit Elleke Boehmer 189
18 "A Place One Can Go Mad In" Kate Kennedy 201
19 Safe Houses Bernard O'Donoghue 213
The Afterlives of Houses
20 "When All Is Ruin Once Again" Roy Foster 217
21 W. H. Auden in Austria Sandra Mayer 232
22 John Soane and House Autobiography Gillian Darley 246
23 Ainola: Music and Silence Julian Barnes 257
Acknowledaements 264
List of Contributors 265
Notes 273
Index 289