Summerson

Like Summerson, I find such towers and blobs lack respect for urban context or human scale.

They saved our Victorian cities. Now they are demolishing my prejudices Simon Jenkins 2010

John Summerson, while exulting in London's regimented Georgian terraces, replied to Betjeman's plea to help save St Pancras that he found the place "as a whole nauseating".

They saved our Victorian cities. Now they are demolishing my prejudices Simon Jenkins 2010

In Bleak House of course we have a special case, in fact we apparently get three dead mother plots for the price of one as Carolyn Dever highlights the fact that Esther Summerson "loses" her mother not once but three times in the novel.

Dead mother plots 2007

In Bleak House of course we have a special case, in fact we apparently get three dead mother plots for the price of one as Carolyn Dever highlights the fact that Esther Summerson "loses" her mother not once but three times in the novel.

42 entries from November 2007 2007

In Bleak House of course we have a special case, in fact we apparently get three dead mother plots for the price of one as Carolyn Dever highlights the fact that Esther Summerson "loses" her mother not once but three times in the novel.

Dead mother plots 2007

What about Bleak House, if it were just the story of Esther Summerson?

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

What about Bleak House, if it were just the story of Esther Summerson?

Archive 2008-06-01 Tim Stretton 2008

“I take it, sir,” says Mr. George, “that you know Miss Summerson pretty well?”

Bleak House 2007

“This is even a rougher place than my gallery to receive a lady in,” said Mr. George, “but I know Miss Summerson will make the best of it.”

Bleak House 2007

Summerson will communicate with Mr. Carstone, and you can only hope that his position may be yet retrievable.

Bleak House 2007