Dress culture in late Victorian women's fiction
Subtitle: literacy, textiles, and activism
By: Christine Bayles Kortsch.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780754665106; 9780754694588
Subjects: English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Writing in fabric, working in print; title: The needle dipped in blood; title: Fashioning women : the Victorian corset; title: Art's labor lost : haunting the dress shop; title: Beautiful revolution : new women sew a new world.