Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature.(Book Review)

Lynn M. Alexander. Women, Work, and Representation: Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2003. Pp. vii, 257. $44.95. ISBN 0-8214-1493-3.

Lynn Alexander's monograph takes an interdisciplinary approach towards mapping "the evolution of a symbol." The ubiquity of needlework as a female skill and the peculiar oppressions of the needle trades as a form of female employment in the nineteenth century meant that representations of the needlewoman carried particular kinds of ideological freight at different periods. The initial concern ...

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