What is home without an aspidistra?
"A College Girl"
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
And in the house opposite nothing was altered, not a fold of the lace curtains, not a leaf of the dusty aspidistra that took all the light in the ground-floor window.
"Carnival"
Compton Mackenzie
So, without illustrations, a castle may be a suburban house with Nottingham lace curtains and an aspidistra, while Perseus or Moses may differ little from the child's own father or brothers.
"The Child Under Eight"
E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith