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A Stitch in Time?: Women, Needlework, and the Making of History in Victorian Britain
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A Stitch in Time: Women, Needlework, and the Making of History in Victorian Britain this article is a seminal work in the area of needlework and women's history.Abstract:
(1996). A Stitch in Time?: Women, Needlework, and the Making of History in Victorian Britain. Journal of Victorian Culture: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 185-202.read more
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Embroidering emancipation : female abolitionists and material culture in Britain and the USA, c.1780-1865
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Refining work : representations of female artistic labour in Victorian literature, 1848-1888.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore representations of women working in artistic professions in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century and demonstrate how these professions came to be represented as suitable remunerative work for middle-class women.
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Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English women's history*
TL;DR: Two very powerful stories structure the history of the changing roles of English women as mentioned in this paper : the tale of the nineteenth-century separation of the spheres of public power and private domesticity relates principally to the experience of middle-class women.
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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
TL;DR: The women writers and the suffrage movement were revisited in Twenty-First-Century On: A Literature of Their Own Revisited as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on women writers.
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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing
Elaine Showalter,Ellen Moers +1 more
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The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
TL;DR: Rozsika Parker as mentioned in this paper re-evaluated the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery and brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements.
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Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England
TL;DR: Prochaska as mentioned in this paper explores the previously neglected topic of the role British women played in developing charity bazaars and in managing philanthropic agencies in the nineteenth century, and investigates their motives, methods and range of activities in an area previously dominated by men.