Women, Work, and Representation

Women, Work, and Representation
Author: Lynn Mae Alexander
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2003
Genre: Art and literature
ISBN: 0821414933


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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.