FRANCES LINCOLN

September 2012
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The Meaning of Home
Edwin Heathcote
We are so familiar with the features of our homes – the rooms,
fixtures and myriad little decorative details – that we have forgotten
how to look at them. We might explore a church, read a book or watch
a film, and attempt to decode its symbols and references, but we
rarely look at our homes with the same critical eye. Yet from the most
ordinary apartment to the most extravagant mansion, every home is
a deep well of meaning.
From windows to wardrobes, fireplaces to door knockers, Edwin
Heathcote attempts to fathom the elements of our everyday
domestic lives. He explores how, over time, ancient ritual elements
transmute into practical features, and how some of these, charged
with latent symbolic meaning, have persisted in modern dwellings
despite having lost their original uses. Home will never look quite
the same again.
Edwin Heathcote is the architecture correspondent for the Financial
Times. He is the author of Contemporary Church Architecture, London
Caffs and Furniture + Architecture. He lives in London.
£12.99 • Hardback • 978-0-7112-3377-5 • 168 x 123mm • 192pp
25 b/w line drawings • September 2012
A Dance with Jane Austen
How a Novelist and her Characters went to the Ball
Susannah Fullerton
Jane Austen loved to put on her satin slippers with shoeroses,
her white gloves and muslin gown, and head out for an
evening of fun at the Basingstoke assemblies. The Bennet girls
share their creator's delight and go off joyfully to dance, and of
course, to meet future husbands.
Drawing on contemporary accounts and illustrations, and a
close reading of the novels as well as Austen's correspondence,
Susannah Fullerton takes the reader through all the stages of
a Regency Ball as Jane Austen and her characters would have
known it.
Her subjects learn their steps, dress in readiness, choose
between public and private balls, worry over a shortage of men,
prefer a cotillion to a quadrille, find transport, talk and flirt with
their partners, sustain themselves with supper, fall in love and
then go home to talk it all over at the end.
Susannah Fullerton is President of the Jane Austen Society of
Australia and has lectured extensively around the world on Jane
Austen's life and novels. She is the author of Jane Austen and
Crime, a book described by Claire Tomalin as 'essential reading
for every Janeite'. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
£16.99 • Hardback • 978-0-7112-3245-7 • 215 x 165mm • 144pp
60 b/w & colour illustrations • September 2012