I'm doing some research on Victorian seamstresses and I was wondering if there any books on the subject which anyone would recommend?
I'm doing some research on Victorian seamstresses and I was wondering if there any books on the subject which anyone would recommend?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_se...of_Two_Cities) But the seamstress only appears at the end of the story and has little relevance to the plot.
Here you have some sugestions:
http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/ugoretz1.html
Some more at the botton, specially, Alexander, Lynn. Women, Work and Representation. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003.
http://reframingthevictorians.blogsp...eamstress.html
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