ABSTRACT
From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. This collection brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material and culture. This volume, ‘Fashionable Things’, will focus on Victorian fads and fashions ranging from chatelains to insect jewellery.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|150 pages
Embodying Fashionability
chapter 2|3 pages
Mrs Merrifield, ‘How Far should the Fashions be Followed?’
chapter 3|6 pages
[Anon], ‘Conduct and Carriage; or, Rules to Guide a Young Lady on Points of Etiquette and Good Breeding in her Intercourse with the World.’
chapter 4|17 pages
[Caroline Stephen], ‘Thoughtfulness in Dress.’
chapter 5|6 pages
[Anon], ‘A Lady's Question: What shall we Wear?’
chapter 6|12 pages
E. P. [Emily Pfeiffer], ‘The Tyranny of Fashion.’
chapter 7|4 pages
Mrs H. R. Haweis, ‘Importance of Dress.’
chapter 8|2 pages
[Anon], Statement and ‘Editorial Note’, The Rational Dress Society's Gazette
chapter 9|7 pages
Madame Roxey a. [Ann] Caplin, ‘On Gestation.’
chapter 10|1 pages
Image: Advertisement, ‘The London Corset Company’
chapter 11|1 pages
Image: Photograph of Crinolette, Great Britain, CA. 1870 (Made)
chapter 12|3 pages
Uncle Grumbler, ‘“The Grecian Bend.”’
chapter 13|17 pages
S. L. B., ‘The Lady with the Little Feet.’
chapter 17|1 pages
Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge; A Tale of the Riots Of 'Eighty.
chapter 18|1 pages
Image: G. W. Hunt, ‘Dolly Varden’ (Music Title Page)
chapter 19|1 pages
The Silkworm, ‘Spinnings in Town.’
chapter 21|1 pages
[Anon], ‘Observations on London and Parisian Fashions.’
chapter 22|2 pages
[Anon], ‘Materials for the Toilette. VIII.’
chapter 23|1 pages
Advertisement for Pears's Rouge & Pears's Pearl Powder
chapter 25|3 pages
Charles Reade, ‘A Simpleton. A Story of the Day.’
chapter 26|4 pages
Medicus, ‘The Toilet-Table, and what should Lie Thereon’
chapter 30|1 pages
M. E. Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret.
chapter 31|1 pages
[Anon], ‘Insane Female Fashions. Bunches of False Hair Behind.’
chapter 33|1 pages
[Anon], ‘L'eau des Fees.’
chapter 34|1 pages
Image: Advertisement for Latreille's Hyperion Hair Restorer in Montagu Browne
chapter 35|1 pages
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
chapter 36|1 pages
Image: Advertisement for Unwin & Albert, Ladies' Ornamental Hair Workers and Expert Wig Makers
part 2|111 pages
Dressing Up
chapter 38|1 pages
Image: Elizabeth Henderson, Fashion Plate, ‘Public Promenade and Bridal Dresses’
chapter 39|3 pages
Aunt Lydia, ‘Letter from Aunt Lydia about Orange-Blossoms.’
chapter 41|1 pages
Image: Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, ‘Dora as the Bride’
chapter 42|1 pages
Image: Edward Killingworth Johnson, Drawing Depicting a Young Widow Holding her Wedding Dress
chapter 43|1 pages
Alice Maud Meadows, ‘May's Wedding Dress’
chapter 44|2 pages
[Anon], ‘Modern Weddings.’
chapter 47|5 pages
Dora de Blaquière, ‘The Trousseau of To-day. Part II.’
chapter 48|1 pages
Helen, ‘Lines on giving up Wearing a Locket of Hair.’
chapter 49|1 pages
Image: Mourning Brooches Containing the Hair of a Deceased Relative
chapter 50|3 pages
[Elizabeth Gaskell], Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life.
chapter 51|4 pages
[Anon], ‘The Paris and London Fashions.’
chapter 52|3 pages
[Anon], ‘Conduct and Carriage; or, Rules to Guide a Young Lady on Points of Etiquette and Good Breeding in her Intercourse with the World.’
chapter 54|1 pages
[M. E. Braddon], ‘Oh, my Cousin, Shallow Hearted!’
chapter 55|2 pages
Image: William Halford & Charles Young, Manufacturing Jewellers, The Jewellers' Book of Patterns in Hair Work: Containing a Great Variety of Copper-Plate Engravings of Devices and Patterns in Hair; Suitable for Mourning Jewellery, Brooches, Rings, Guards, Alberts, Necklets, Lockets, Bracelets, Miniatures, Studs, Links, Earrings, &C., &C., &C.
chapter 56|1 pages
Image: Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, ‘A Young Woman in Mourning Dress’, 1868/1872
chapter 57|3 pages
The Silkworm, ‘Spinnings in Town.’
chapter 58|4 pages
Sylvia, ‘On the Etiquette of Mourning.’
chapter 61|1 pages
Image: [Anon], ‘Some Summer Dresses for Mourning Wear.’
chapter 63|1 pages
Image: [John Leech], ‘The Chatelaine; A Really Useful Present.’
chapter 64|1 pages
Image: Cut-Steel Chatelaine with Attachments, England, CA. 1863–1885
chapter 67|1 pages
[Anon], ‘The Return of the Chatelaine’ in ‘Our Home Circle. Notes and Hints by a Lady.’
chapter 68|2 pages
[Anon], ‘A Word or Two about Cameos.’
chapter 69|1 pages
[Anon], ‘Coral Jewellery and Peasant Ornaments.’
chapter 70|1 pages
George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
chapter 71|1 pages
Image: Advertisement, ‘The “Beatrice” Silver and Gold Jewellery.’
chapter 72|1 pages
[Anon], ‘Jewels, and how to Wear them.’
chapter 73|1 pages
Image: [Anon], ‘The Latest Ideas in Jewellery Seen at Swan and Edgar's, Piccadilly and Regent Street.’
part 3|53 pages
Animal and Insect Accessories; Home Decoration
chapter 74|2 pages
[Anon], ‘The Best French Kid Gloves.’
chapter 76|2 pages
Mrs. Henry [Ellen] Wood, East Lynne
chapter 78|2 pages
[Anon], ‘The Fashions.’
chapter 79|6 pages
P. L. Simmonds, ‘Art-Inroads on Natural History.’
chapter 80|1 pages
[Anon], ‘Beetle-Wings.’ (‘Enquiries.’; Enquiry from ‘Elsie’) [A] and [Anon], ‘Beetle-Wings (Elsie).’ (‘Answers to Enquiries.’; Response to ‘Elsie’) [B]
chapter 81|3 pages
[Anon], ‘The Strange Story of a Sealskin. A Tale of Metempsychosis.’
chapter 83|2 pages
Montagu Browne, Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur in Collecting, Preserving, and Setting Up Natural History Specimens of all Kinds. To which is Added a Chapter upon the Pictorial Arrangement of Museums.
chapter 87|9 pages
C. W. Gedney, ‘Victims of Vanity.’
part 4|63 pages
Handicraft