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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 was in the 1840s, stimulated by the Second Report of the Children's Employment Commission (1843). The initial emphasis was on the "factual" revelation of women's conditions of labor in dress-making, to underpin public awareness amongst middle- and upper-class women customers. Their thoughtlessness in ordering work at very short notice, extending their credit, and not inquiring into seamstresses' pay...
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