Novel craft :: Victorian domestic handicraft and nineteenth-century fiction /

Domestic handicraft was an extraordinarily popular leisure activity in Victorian Britain, especially amongst middle-class women. Craftswomen pasted shells onto boxes, stitched fish scales onto silk, scorched patterns into wood, cast flower petals out of wax, and made needlework portraits of the roya...

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1. Verfasser: Schaffer, Talia, 1968-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
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Zusammenfassung:Domestic handicraft was an extraordinarily popular leisure activity in Victorian Britain, especially amongst middle-class women. Craftswomen pasted shells onto boxes, stitched fish scales onto silk, scorched patterns into wood, cast flower petals out of wax, and made needlework portraits of the royal spaniels. Yet despite its ubiquity, little has been written about this curious hobby. Providing a much-needed history of this under-studied phenomenon, Talia Schaffer demonstrates the importance of domestic handicraft in Victorian literature and culture. Novel Craft presents what Schaffer terms th.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199781058
0199781052
0190252812
9780190252816
1283232189
9781283232180
9786613232182
6613232181

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