Women and Material Culture, 1660–1830

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Women and their Jewels....Pages 11-30
Fanny’s Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780–1850....Pages 31-51
‘Changing her gown and setting her head to rights’: New Shops, New Hats and New Identities....Pages 52-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts....Pages 71-85
Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices....Pages 86-102
A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence....Pages 103-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
The Taste for Bringing the Outside in’: Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825)....Pages 119-133
Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade....Pages 134-147
White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion....Pages 148-159
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Reinstating the ‘Pamela Vogue’....Pages 163-175
The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women’s Publishing, Collecting and Anglo-German Exchange....Pages 176-191
‘Books without which I cannot write’: How Did Eighteenth-century Women Writers Get the Books They Read?....Pages 192-211
Back Matter....Pages 213-223