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God's architect : Pugin and the building of romantic Britain / Rosemary Hill.
Fine Arts Library NA997.P9 H55 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Rosemary (Historian)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852.
- Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore.
- Architects--Great Britain--Biography.
- Architects.
- Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Architecture)--Great Britain.
- Gothic revival (Architecture).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 601 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Allen Lane, 2007.
- Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Prologue
- Auguste Charles Pugin
- Catherine Welby
- The microcosm of London: 1802-1812
- Waverly: 1812 to 1821
- 'My first design': 1821 to 1824
- Metropolitan improvements: 1824 to 1826
- The king's pleasure: 1827
- Beginning the world: October 1827 to July 1831
- A very short courtship: July 1831 to May 1832
- 'Gothic for ever': June 1832 to April 1833
- Beginning the world again: May 1833 to October 1834
- The new world begun: October 1834 to May 1835
- Salisbury and Sarum: summer 1835
- Contrasts: summer 1835 to August 1836
- Entre deux guerres: autumn 1836
- Romantic Catholics
- The professor of ecclesiastical antiquities: 1837
- 'My first church': July 1837 to May 1838
- Birmingham and Oxford: May 1838 to May 1839
- Young Victorians: May 1839 to February 1840
- A vision for England: March to December 1840
- True principles and Tract XC: 1841
- Reunion and division: 1842
- A shift in the wind: January to September 1843
- The Grange, Ramsgate: September to December 1843
- A return of grief: January to August 1844
- The new house and the new palace: autumn and winter, 1844
- The new life: December 1844 to April 1845
- A battle of wills: May to October 1845
- Entre deux femmes: October 1845 to June 1846
- Improving the taste of young England: June 1846 to February 1847
- The House of Lords: February to autumn 1847
- Many hands: autumn 1847
- Helen Lumsdaine: December 1847 to May 1848
- 'One affectionate heart': May to 10 August 1848
- 'A first rate Gothic woman': 11 August 1848 to August 1849
- Design for the middling sort: September 1849 to January 1850
- The high Victorians: 1850
- The Great Exhibition: January to October 1851
- The whole machinery of the clock: October 1851 to February 1852
- Bethlem and Ramsgate: 26 February to September 1852
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- List of works
- Select bibliography
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780713994995
- 0713994991
- OCLC:
- 123374742
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