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- Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
- Dedication
- Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Identifying the poor, locating their clothes
- 1 Setting the standard: working-class dress
- 2 ‘Frankly, a mystery’: budgeting for clothes
- 3 ‘Poverty busied itself’: buying clothes
- 4 ‘Woman's best weapon’: needlework and home-made clothing
- 5 ‘The struggle for respectability’
- 6 The sense of self
- 7 ‘The bowels of compassion’: clothing and the Poor Law
- 8 ‘An urgent desire to clothe them’: ladies’ clothing charities
- 9 ‘We have nothing but our clothes’: charity schools and servants
- 10 ‘The greatest stigma and disgrace’: lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons
- Conclusion No finery
- Bibliography
- Index
Copyright page
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
- Dedication
- Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Identifying the poor, locating their clothes
- 1 Setting the standard: working-class dress
- 2 ‘Frankly, a mystery’: budgeting for clothes
- 3 ‘Poverty busied itself’: buying clothes
- 4 ‘Woman's best weapon’: needlework and home-made clothing
- 5 ‘The struggle for respectability’
- 6 The sense of self
- 7 ‘The bowels of compassion’: clothing and the Poor Law
- 8 ‘An urgent desire to clothe them’: ladies’ clothing charities
- 9 ‘We have nothing but our clothes’: charity schools and servants
- 10 ‘The greatest stigma and disgrace’: lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons
- Conclusion No finery
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013