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Famine and Fashion - Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Famine and Fashion - Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Like the figure of the governess, the seamstress occupied a unique
place in the history of the nineteenth century, appearing
frequently in debates about women's work and education, and the
condition of the working classes generally in the rapidly changing
capitalist marketplace. Like the governess, the figure of the
needlewoman is ubiquitous in art, fiction and journalism in the
nineteenth century. The fifteen articles in this book address the
seamstress's appearance as a 'real' figure in the changing
economies of nineteenth-century Britain, America, and France, and
as an important cultural icon in the art and literature of the
period. They treat the many different types of needlewomen in the
nineteenth century-from skilled milliners and dressmakers, some of
whom owned their own businesses selling merchandise to other women
(forming a unique 'female economy') to women who, through reduced
circumstances, were forced into the lowest end of paid needlework,
sewing clothing at home for starvation wages-like the impoverished
shirt-maker in the famous Victorian poem by Thomas Hood, 'The Song
of the Shirt.' This volume assembles the work of leading American,
British and Canadian scholars from many different fields, including
art history, literary criticism, gender studies, labor history,
business history, and economic history to draw together recent
scholarship on needlewomen from a variety of different disciplines
and methodologies. Famine and Fashion will therefore appeal to
anyone studying images of work in the nineteenth century, popular
and canonical nineteenth-century literature, the history of women's
work, the history of sweated labor, the origins of the ready-made
clothing industry and early feminism.
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