At Home

by Bill Bryson

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  ———. The Unromantic Castle and Other Essays. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990.

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  3.1 A Princely Banquet, Woodcut by Michael Wohlgemuth, 1491: © INTERFOTO/ Alamy.

  4.1 Farmer Giles’s Establishment, Christmas Day 1800, etching by William Heath, published in 1830: Science Museum Pictorial.

  5.1 Hannah Cullwick photographed by Arthur Munby—cleaning shoes, 1864; with bucket and watering-can, 1864; cleaning steps, 1872; as a chimney sweep, 1862: Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

  6.1 Family Group, pen-and-ink drawing by John Harden, 1804: courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

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