18 Folgate Street; Author: Severs, Dennis; Paperback (C Format)

Author: Severs, Dennis
Paperback (C Format); Illustrations
289 pages
Published: November 2002
Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
ISBN: 0099437368
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The Life of a House in Spitalfields. Growing up in California, Dennis Severs fell in love with the England he saw in old black and white movies. At seventeen he came to London, looking for a home with a heart. In 1979 he transporting us back to the eighteenth century.At 17, Dennis Severs came to London, looking for a home. In 1979 he found a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields. Over the next 20 years he transformed it into an enchanted 18th-century time-capsule, with original furniture and fittings, inventing a fictional Huguenot family to live there.