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Dress culture in late Victorian women's fiction : literacy, textiles, and activism / Christine Bayles Kortsch.
LIBRA PR116 .K67 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kortsch, Christine Bayles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Women authors.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Clothing and dress in literature.
- Sewing in literature.
- Material culture in literature.
- Material culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Material culture.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
- Contents:
- Writing in fabric, working in print
- The needle dipped in blood
- Fashioning women : the Victorian corset
- Art's labor lost : haunting the dress shop
- Beautiful revolution : new women sew a new world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780754665106
- 0754665100
- 9780754694588
- 0754694585
- OCLC:
- 429227147
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