Four Walls
Peter Campbell, 20 April 1989
Living Space: In Fact and Fiction
by Philippa Tristram.
Routledge, 306 pp., £40, January 1989,0 415 01279 1 Show More
by Philippa Tristram.
Routledge, 306 pp., £40, January 1989,
Building Domestic Liberty
by Polly WynnAllen.
Massachusetts, 195 pp., £16.70, December 1988,9780870236273 Show More
by Polly WynnAllen.
Massachusetts, 195 pp., £16.70, December 1988,
Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939
by John Stilgoe.
Yale, 353 pp., £25, February 1989,0 300 04257 4 Show More
by John Stilgoe.
Yale, 353 pp., £25, February 1989,
“... to show how much better things could be ‘if only’. When she wrote pure theory she became, Polly WynnAllen says, ‘gridlocked in the toils of her synthesising’. In her fiction, on the other hand, she propagandised fluently against the trammels of domesticity. Allen’s ... ”
