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A HISTORY OF THE WATER CLOSET follows the development of the water closet, or toilet, beginning with privies in monasteries and ending with London's sewer system clean-up in the 19th century. Included are descriptions of the various types of chamber pots, toilet furniture, gadgets and mechanical devices invented prior to the toilet as we know it today. The final chapter of the book covers the emergence of indoor bathing, and early indoor plumbing in both England and France.
A HISTORY OF THE WATER CLOSET, and 18th & 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA by Marilyn Clay were both named to two online Top 100 Best-Selling E-books list. Three Regency Period Furniture Books by Marilyn Clay appeared on the same Best Seller list, with Baubles & Necessities Pertaining to Her Ladyship claiming the #1 Best Seller spot in the Antiques & Collectibles category.
MARILYN CLAY is an award-winning author and respected historian of the Regency period in English history. For sixteen years, she published The Regency Plume, an international newsletter filled with articles of interest to writers, historians and people interested in all aspects of the 18th and early 19th centuries in English history. Essays by Marilyn Clay were published in Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain from the 1780s to 1830s, found in many University libraries.
MARILYN CLAY's historical suspense novels include DECEPTIONS: A Jamestown Novel, praised by The Library Journal and Booklist. To escape an arranged marriage, Catherine leaves England for Jamestown in search of her childhood sweetheart. What she finds in the New World nearly destroys her! Twists and turns will keep readers guessing!
SECRETS AND LIES: A Jamestown Novel, also originally released in hardcover. When four English girls travel to the New World on a Bride Ship to marry settlers and start families, they are instead shocked to discover that someone in Jamestown wants them all dead!
BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY set in 1776 Philadelphia, is another popular historical suspense novel by Marilyn Clay. Quaker Betsy Ross sets out to uncover who killed her beloved husband John Ross, but is instead drawn into a dangerous underworld of spies and double spies. Can Betsy bring down the killer before he kills her? In print and e-book.
Books in Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series include MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, MURDER IN MAYFAIR, MURDER IN MARGATE, MURDER AT MEDLEY PARK, MURDER IN MIDDLEWYCH, MURDER IN MAIDSTONE, MURDER AT MONTFORD HALL, MURDER ON MARSH LANE, MURDER IN MARTINDALE, and coming in late 2022, MURDER AT MARLEY CHASE. Are all available worldwide in print and Ebook.
Kensington Books originally published many of Marilyn Clay's Regency-set historical novels. All were translated to foreign languages. Titles include: Bewitching Lord Winterton, A Pretty Puzzle, Brighton Beauty, Miss Darby's Debut, The Uppity Earl, Felicity's Folly, Miss Eliza's Gentleman Caller, and The Unsuitable Suitor.
Look for all of Marilyn Clay's novels in libraries or online!
Título : A History of the Water Closet
EAN : 9781502246479
Editorial : Marilyn Clay
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