Very Pointed
Dinah Birch: Pugin, 20 September 2007
God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
by Rosemary Hill.
Allen Lane, 602 pp., August 2007,978 0 7139 9499 5 Show More
by Rosemary Hill.
Allen Lane, 602 pp., August 2007,
“... reader, much affected by a series of iconoclastic texts she encountered early in life, including Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason and William Godwin’s Political Justice. She favoured the rights of women (perhaps as a result of reading Mary Wollstonecraft), and briefly attempted to found a Godwinian commonwealth with her brother. She had no time for ... ”