TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander, Lynn Mae
AU  - Alexander, Lynn Mae
TI  - Women, Work, and Representation : : needlewomen in Victorian art and literature
SN  - 9780821414934
U1  - 820.992 ALE 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Athens 
PB  - : Ohio University Press, 
KW  - Literature
KW  - English and Old English literatures
KW  - Old English literatures
KW  - English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Needlework in literature
KW  - Working poor -- England -- History -- 19th century
KW  - Sewing in literature
KW  - Women in literature
KW  - Poor in literature
KW  - Poor in art
N1  - 1. The Victorian Seamstress: Fact and Fiction --
2. Establishing the Image --
3. The Symbolic Image --
4. Emigration and the Secular Saint --
5. Acculturation --
6. The Aesthetic Vision --
7. Conclusion: Slaves of the Needle
N2  - In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature
ER  -