Describing Women's Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century.

Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in eighteenth—century England. This book explores the significance of these descriptions across a range of sources including wills, newspapers, accounts, court records, and the records of the old poor law.

Attention has rested on women literate and...