Famine and Fashion : Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, Beth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005.
Temas:
1800-1899
Women dressmakers > History > 19th century.
Dressmaking > History > 19th century.
Fashion > History > 19th century.
Women dressmakers > Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century.
Couturières > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Couture (Profession) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Dressmaking
Fashion
Women dressmakers
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART I: READING OUT
  • 1 "Weary Stitches": Illustrations and Paintings for Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt" and Other Poems
  • 2 Workers' Compensation: (Needle)Work and Ideals of Femininity in Margaret Oliphant's Kirsteen
  • 3 "Let herself out to do needlework": Female Agency and the Workhouse of Gender in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit
  • 4 The Retailoring of Dickens: Christmas Shadows, Radicalism, and the Needlewoman Myth
  • 5 Chartism and Gender Politics in Ernest Jones's The Young Milliner
  • 6 The Melodramatic Seamstress: Interpreting a Victorian Penny Dreadful
  • 7 All that Glitters is not Gold: the Show-Shop and the Victorian Seamstress
  • PART II: WRITING IN
  • 8 Business or Labor? Blurred Boundaries in the Careers of Self-Employed Needlewomen in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany
  • 9 Scarlett's Sisters: Spinsters, Widows, Wives, and Free-Traders in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina
  • 10 "Thinking and Stitching, Stitching and Thinking": Needlework, American Women Writers, and Professionalism
  • 11 "Furnishing Girls with Self-Supporting Trades": Custom Needlework and Vocational Education, 1890-1920
  • 12 Virtue, Vice, and Revolution: Representations of Parisian Needlewomen in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  • 13 "A Heavy Bill to Settle with Humanity": The Representation and Invisibility of London's Principal Milliners and Dressmakers
  • 14 "Wanted: 1000 Spirited Young Milliners": The Fund for Promoting Female Emigration
  • 15 "To Be Poor and To Be Honest ... Is the Hardest Struggle of All": Sweated Needlewomen and Campaigns for Protective Legislation, 1840-1914
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.

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