Women, work, and representation
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- 0821414933
Women, work, and representation is a english art, history book by Lynn Mae Alexander.
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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.
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Women, work, and representation is a English Art, History, Needlework in literature book.
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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.
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Women, work, and representation was written by Lynn Mae Alexander.