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If Walls Could Talk: An intimate history of the home

If Walls Could Talk: An intimate history of the home Hardback - 2011

by Worsley, Lucy

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  • Title If Walls Could Talk: An intimate history of the home
  • Author Worsley, Lucy
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Faber & Faber
  • Date 2011-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR003412565
  • ISBN 9780571259526 / 0571259529
  • Library of Congress subjects Households - England - History, Families - England - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011514836
  • Dewey Decimal Code 392.3

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Summary

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch up? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions will be answered in this juicy, smelly and truly intimate history of home life. Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen, covering the architectural history of each room, but concentrating on what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove. From sauce-stirring to breast-feeding, teeth-cleaning to masturbation, getting dressed to getting married, this book will make you see your home with new eyes.

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