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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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Elaine Nelson
I wanted this to be better than it was. Great anecdotes, but essentially all anecdote, and very much fixated on Victorian England. Which I suppose makes sense since he was riffing on an 1851 house, but still somewhat disappointing. Gave it an extra star because it was clever and entertaining.
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