This is a review in The Guardian about a new book by historian Deborah Cohen. It looks at the changes in attitudes to privacy and secrecy in the family over the last 200 years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jan/12/behind-closed-doors-deborah-cohen
The relevance to this blog is in the 6th paragraph, which mentions "those permanent bachelors without whom no Victorian home was complete".
There is also a small gallery of related photos here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2013/jan/21/family-history-secrets-genealogy-pictures
See the 6th and 7th images, of Richard Blake Brown.
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