House of Fiction
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House of Fiction

From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life

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eBook - ePub

House of Fiction

From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life

About this book

In  House of Fiction we encounter Jane Austen drinking 'too much wine' in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf's love of Talland House at St Ives is palpable in   To the Lighthouse , and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder's return to Brideshead.

Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries and the novels themselves,  House of Fiction  opens the doors to these celebrated houses, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life.

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Information

Publisher
Wilton Square
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9781806771066
Subtopic
European Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. By the Same Author
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction The House of Fiction’s many Windows
  6. One Shandy Hall the Birth of the House in Fiction
  7. Two Strawberry Hill the Invention of the Gothic Novel
  8. Three Pride and Property Women and Houses in Regency England
  9. Four Ancient and Romantic Walter Scott’s Baronial Halls
  10. Five Madwoman in the Attic, Author in the Dining Room the Haunts of Charlotte Brontë
  11. Six Charles Dickens A Child’s View of Home
  12. Seven For the Love of an English Cottage Thomas Hardy and E. M. Forster
  13. Eight The House as a Work of Art the Aesthetic Visions of John Galsworthy and Henry James
  14. Nine Rooms of Her Own Virginia Woolf’s Houses of Memory
  15. Ten Inheritance and Loss War and the Great English Estates
  16. Eleven Gothic House Redux the Passion of Manderley, Agatha Christie’s Bloody House Parties
  17. Twelve The Glamour, Horror and Ennui of Modern Housing Ian Fleming, J. G. Ballard, Julian Barnes
  18. Thirteen Looking Backwards the English Country House through a Post-Modern Lens
  19. Epilogue
  20. Gazetteer
  21. Bibliography
  22. Acknowledgements
  23. Index
  24. Copyright

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