Our House and London out of Our Windows
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From rooms high above London's Embankment, Elizabeth Robins Pennell records the pleasures and complications of making a home beside the river. She and J. find their chambers by chance after months of searching, drawn by the old brick house and its broad outlook. Her account pairs domestic adventures with Joseph Pennell's illustrations of the changing views: barges, bridges, clouds, smoke and the lights that appear at night.
The chapters turn to servants, charwomen, housekeepers, tenants and the surrounding quarter. Pennell recalls engaging the capable maid 'Enrietter and describes Clémentine's fierce attachment to her own shabby rooms. These portraits bring cooking, household work, money and social expectations into the foreground.
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- Author
- Elizabeth Robins Pennell
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 134
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Memoir
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