Author: Lynn Mae Alexander
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821414933
Category : Art and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.
Women, Work, and Representation
Author: Lynn Mae Alexander
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821414933
Category : Art and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821414933
Category : Art and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.
The Athenaeum
Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
S-Zypaeus. 1878
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid
Author: Pam Inder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350060909
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people within it, from their working conditions and earnings to their training, services and relationships with customers. Exploring the lives of dressmakers in fact and fiction, the book looks at representations of the trade in the plays and novels of the time, while surveying the often harsh realities of the workers' lives. From the arrival of the sewing machine to the influence of the department store, it explores the impact of mechanization, commercialization and modernity on a historical trade. Pamela Inder illuminates a new world of dressmaking enabled by goods like paper patterns and magazines, and sets out to investigate the increasing monopoly of female dressmakers in an industry once dominated by male tailors. Drawing on a range of original and hitherto unpublished sources – including business records, diaries, letters, bills and newspaper articles – Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid reveals the untold story of the dressmaking trade. Beautifully illustrated with over 80 images, the book brings dressmakers into focus as real people, granting new insights into working class life in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350060909
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people within it, from their working conditions and earnings to their training, services and relationships with customers. Exploring the lives of dressmakers in fact and fiction, the book looks at representations of the trade in the plays and novels of the time, while surveying the often harsh realities of the workers' lives. From the arrival of the sewing machine to the influence of the department store, it explores the impact of mechanization, commercialization and modernity on a historical trade. Pamela Inder illuminates a new world of dressmaking enabled by goods like paper patterns and magazines, and sets out to investigate the increasing monopoly of female dressmakers in an industry once dominated by male tailors. Drawing on a range of original and hitherto unpublished sources – including business records, diaries, letters, bills and newspaper articles – Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid reveals the untold story of the dressmaking trade. Beautifully illustrated with over 80 images, the book brings dressmakers into focus as real people, granting new insights into working class life in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
The Eclectic Review
Author: Samuel Greatheed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain: TIT-ZOR
Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Charter, By-laws and Library Rules of the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The London and Paris ladies' magazine of fashion, ed. by mrs. Edward Thomas
Author: Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Eclectic and Congregational Review
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description