Author: George William GodfreyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
My Milliner's Bill
Author: George William GodfreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The National Magazine
Author: Abel StevensThe Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: Christmas stories ; Ballads, and other poems ; Tales
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine
Author: John Holmes AgnewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
The Milliner's Hat Mystery
Author: Basil ThomsonPublisher: Dean Street Press
ISBN: 1911095803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"What are you looking for, sir?" he said. "Bloodstains." Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him. The trail leads to France, where we discover why a French milliner chose to ride in a laundry basket, why the two American men are so interested in their wives' hat trimmings, and why it is so difficult for the French police to touch a criminal with high political connections. But Richardson discovers that the murder of Bernard Pitt was only an incident in the diabolical plot linking a network of criminals on both sides of the Channel. The Milliner's Hat Mystery, a novel which inspired Ian Fleming, was first published in 1937. This new edition, the first for many decades, includes an introduction by crime novelist Martin Edwards, author of acclaimed genre history The Golden Age of Murder. "Sir Basil Thomson is a past-master in the mysteries of Scotland Yard." Times Literary Supplement
The Robertses on their travels
Author: Frances TrollopeShirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen
Author: Pam InderPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350252980
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen explores how the jobs of the 'seamstress' evolved in scope, and status, between 1600-1900. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, seamstressing was a trade for women who worked in linen and cotton, making men's shirts, women's chemises, underwear and baby linen; some of these seamstresses were consummate craftswomen, able to sew with stitches almost invisible to the naked eye. Few examples of their work survive, but those that do attest to their skill. However, as the ready-to-wear trade expanded in the 18th century, women who assembled these garments were also known as seamstresses, and by the 1840s, most seamstresses were outworkers for companies or entrepreneurs, paid unbelievably low rates per dozen for the garments they produced, notorious examples of downtrodden, exploited womenfolk. Drawing on a range of original and hitherto unpublished sources, including business diaries, letters and bills, Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen explores the seamstress's change of status in the 19th century and the reasons for it, hinting at the resurgence of the trade today given so few women today are skilled at repairing and altering clothes. Illustrated with 60 images, the book brings seamstresses into focus as real people, granting new insights into working class life in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.