From the Woman Who Brought You Great Men's Skirting Boards

Dr. Johnson's Doorknob and Other Significant Parts of Great Men's Houses, by Liz Workman, reviewed in Antiques & Collecting magazine.

Behind every great man are his objects and daily possessions, defined as much by the minutiae of domesticity as by the great works of the man himself. Dr. Johnson's Doorknob, taken from Liz Workman's National Heritage Revisited Series, published in England in 2002, is a situationist's catalog of overlooked and highly amusing ephemera from some of the most famous households in history. Each of the nine chapters in this charming slipcased volume is an anthology in itself. From the mantlepieces of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Washington Irving's crockery, Edgar Allen Poe's bannisters and Winston Churchill's baseboards, Liz Workman has peeked over the velvet ropes and turned an ironic eye on some of the most important historic homes in England and America and humorously metamorphosized their famous inhabitants along the way.