Victorian Domesticity

Whalebone gave women new work opportunities but it also subjected them to prescribed notions of domesticity.  Such was exemplified by the corset, which was made of whalebone and consequently one of the leading demands that fueled the whaling industry. Women began wearing “whaleboned bodies” during the sixteenth century when their cloth bodices began employing rigid…

Victorian Domesticity by Charles Strickland

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Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott: 9780817312541: Strickland, Charles: Books

Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott

Victorian Domesticity

Charles Strickland. Victorian Domesticity: Families in the Life and Art of Louisa May Alcott. University: University of Alabama Press, 1985. Pp. xv, 198. $24.50., History of Education Quarterly

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