Book

At Home 2010

By Bill Bryson

  • cosmetics, history of cotton, spinning jenny, corsets

At Home: A Short History of Private Life is a history of domestic life written by Bill Bryson. It was published in May 2010. The book covers topics of the commerce, architecture, technology and geography that have shaped homes into what they are today, told through a series of "tours" through Bryson's Norfolk rectory that quickly digress into the history of each particular room.

cosmeticshistory of cottonspinning jennycorsetsVictorian fashionnurseriesatticsplum roomsstairswallpaperpaintbedrooms

Log it

Sign in to log this.

Character

Warm, cool, resolved and nostalgic.

  • warmbleak
  • cooloverwhelming
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • effortlessdemanding

Who loves it, who doesn't

No profiled raters yet.

Ask the title

A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.

YesNoUnclear