Material Lives

Download or read book Material Lives written by Serena Dyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of Illustrations List of Charts and Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Making Material Lives Material Life Writing The Consumer Culture of Making Four Material Lives -- 2. Material Accounting: A Sartorial Account Book Barbara Johnson (1738?1825) Educating Barbara Johnson Accounting for Herself Material Literacy A Chronicle of Fashion -- 3. Dress of the Year: Watercolours Ann Frankland Lewis (1757?1842) Sartorial Timekeeping and the Fashion Plate Accomplishment and Creative Practice Society and Fashionable Display Selfhood, Emotion and the Mourning Watercolours -- 4. Adorned in Silk: Dressed Prints Sabine Winn (1734?1798) Paper Textiles, Dress and the Dressed Print Sabine Winn's Dressed Prints Print and Making at Nostell -- 5. Fashions in Miniature: Dolls Laetitia Powell (1741?1801) The Powell Dolls Mimetic Dolls and Miniature Selves Dolls as Sartorial Social Narrators -- 6. Conclusion: Material Afterlives Glossary Bibliography Index.