Vivienne Richmond

Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781107645349
• ISBN-10: 1107645344
• Artikelnr.: 45571233

Autorenporträt

Vivienne Richmond is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: identifying the poor, locating their clothes
1. Setting the standard: working-class dress
2. 'Frankly a mystery': budgeting for clothes
3. 'Poverty busied itself': buying clothes
4. 'Woman's best weapon': needlework and home-made clothing
5. 'The struggle for respectability'
6. The sense of self
7. 'The bowels of compassion': clothing and the Poor Law
8. 'An urgent desire to clothe them': ladies' clothing charities
9. 'We have nothing but our clothes': charity schools and servants
10. 'The greatest stigma and disgrace': lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons
Conclusion: no finery
Bibliography.