HISTORY OF THE WATER CLOSET

A HISTORY OF THE WATER CLOSET is a concise history of the development of the water closet, or toilet, beginning with crude privies in monasteries and ending with London's sewer system clean-up in the 19th century. Included are descriptions of the various types of chamber pots, toilet furniture, gadgets and mechanical devices invented prior to the toilet as we know it today. The final chapter of the book covers the emergence of indoor bathing, and early indoor plumbing in both England and France.

A HISTORY OF THE WATER CLOSET, and 18th & 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA by Marilyn Clay were both named to two online Top 100 Best-Selling E-books list. Three Regency Period Furniture Books by Marilyn Clay appeared on the same Best Seller list, with Baubles & Necessities Pertaining to Her Ladyship claiming the #1 Best Seller spot in the Antiques & Collectibles category.

MARILYN CLAY is an award-winning author and respected historian of the Regency period in English history. For sixteen years, she published The Regency Plume, an international newsletter containing articles useful to writers, historians and others interested in all aspects of the 18th and early 19th centuries in English history. Essays by Marilyn Clay were published in Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain from the 1780s to 1830s, an anthology found in many University libraries.

Included in Marilyn Clay’s twenty-one novels are ten titles in her recent Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series: MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, MURDER IN MAYFAIR, MURDER IN MARGATE, MURDER AT MEDLEY PARK, MURDER IN MIDDLEWYCH, MURDER IN MAIDSTONE, MURDER AT MONTFORD HALL, MURDER ON MARSH LANE, MURDER IN MARTINDALE, and in 2023, MURDER AT MARLEY CHASE. Are ten titles all available worldwide in print and Ebook, as are Marilyn Clay's historical suspense novels set in Colonial America, Deceptions: A Jamestown Novel and Secrets And Lies both published in print by Five Star Gale, and are now available as ebooks and audiobooks

Kensington Books published many of Marilyn Clay’s early Regency-set historical novels. All were translated to foreign languages. Bewitching Lord Winterton, A Pretty Puzzle, Brighton Beauty, Miss Darby's Debut, The Uppity Earl, Felicity’s Folly, Miss Eliza’s Gentleman Caller, Felicity's Folly, The Unsuitable Suitor, and The Uppity Earl, all now available as ebooks and audiobooks. Several have also recently been re-released in print.

For more information on author Marilyn Clay, visit her website at Marilyn Clay Author.