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Book of the Bath, 100–103.

186 Hector Berlioz: Vigarello, Concepts of Cleanliness, 187.

186 Edmée Renaudin: Goubert, Conquest of Water, 240–41.

186 Chinese Baths: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 46; Vigarello, Concepts of Cleanliness, 188–89.

186 public baths in Paris: Vigarello, Concepts of Cleanliness, 285–86.

187 Beginning in the 1860s: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 104.

187 (box) In 1819: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 104.

188 On Politeness and Good Taste: Philippe Perrot, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century, trans. Richard Bienvenu (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), 125.

188 “No–one in my family”: Vigarello, Concepts of Cleanliness, 175.

188 Mademoiselle Moisset: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 96, 108–9.

189 Many convent-educated girls: Vigarello, Concepts of Cleanliness, 174–75.

190 Baroness Staffe … into the primordial sludge: La Baronne Staffe, Le Cabinet de Toilette, 15, 18, 19, 20, 23, 28, 30, 51–54. (Translation by the author.)

192 Edouard Dainville: Girouard, French Country House, 233.

192 Château d’Armainvilliers: Girouard, French Country House, 239.

192 Roquetaillade: Girouard, French Country House, 237.

192 Before 1850 … warned Bourgeois d’Orvanne: Vigarello, Concepts of Cleanliness, 190, 200, 198–99.

193 Ministry of Public Education … “he died in the big baths”: Goubert, Conquest of Water, 157, 217–18, 23, 138.

195 Encyclopédie de la santé: Vigarello, Concepts of Cleanliness, 195.

195 Jules Ferry … who were ill took full baths: Goubert, Conquest of Water, 146, 150–51, 153, 156–57.

196 importation of the German shower: De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 58.

MARGINALIA IN CHAPTER SIX

162 Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, Dickens: A Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), 243.

164 De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 120.

167 Jan Read, The Moors in Spain and Portugal (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), 234.

168 L. W. Cowie, A Dictionary of British Social History (London: Bell, 1973),19

170 Stone, Family, Sex and Marriage, 486.

173 George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (London: Penguin, 1989), 121.

174 Casanova, Memoirs, 2:148.

178 Ladd, “Public Baths,” 391, n. 21.

181 Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command, 678, n. 78.

184 Perrot, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie, 125.

188 Goubert, Conquest of Water, 90.

190 De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 116.

191 De Bonneville, Book of the Bath, 112.

193 Illich, H2O, 2.

195 Emile Zola, Germinal, trans. Peter Collier (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1993, 114–16.


CHAPTER SEVEN

WET ALL OVER AT ONCE: AMERICA, 1815–1900

199 Elizabeth Drinker: Elizabeth Drinker, The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker, ed. Elaine Forman Crane (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991), 2:1185.

202 hydropathy, which seized the country … Elizabeth Blackwell: Susan E. Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed: The Water-Cure Movement and Women’s Health (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987), 21–23; Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command, 660–62.

203 Americans welcomed it: Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed, 3, 15–16, 76.

204 Harriet Beecher Stowe … should circulate to every chamber: Cayleff, Wash and Be Healed, 144, 148.

205 Duc de Doudeauville: Girouard, French Country House, 233.

205 American hotels: Jefferson Williamson, The American Hotel: An Anecdotal History (New York: Knopf, 1930), 9, 13–28.

206 John Jacob Astor: Williamson, American Hotel, 29, 33.

206 Illustrated London News: Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command, 694.

206 In the decades: Williamson, American Hotel, 55, 61–62; Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command, 693–97.

207 Andrew Jackson Downing: Andrew Jackson Downing, Victorian Cottage Residences (New York: Dover, 1981), 131.

207 Sarah Josepha Hale: Esther B. Aresty, The Best Behaviour: The Course of Good Manners–-from Antiquity to the Present–-As Seen through Courtesy and Etiquette Books (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970), 223; Wilkie, “Submerged Sensuality,” 650.

208 Florence Nightingale’s success: Suellen Hoy, Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996),

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