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

    Nicol, Erskine, 1825-1904. | Date: March 1st 1855 | Reference: 27637i
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    The single homemaker and material culture in the long eighteenth century / David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby.

    Hussey, David, 1963- | Date: 2012
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