An Irish bachelor sits threading a needle to mend his ragged clothes. Lithograph by T. Maguire, 1855, after E. Nicol.

The single homemaker and material culture in the long eighteenth century / David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby.

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An Irish bachelor sits threading a needle to mend his ragged clothes. Lithograph by T. Maguire, 1855, after E. Nicol.

The single homemaker and material culture in the long eighteenth century / David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby.