"Vivienne Richmond demonstrates the power of clothing in the lives of the working and indigent poor of 19th century England: children, women and men. This is an innovative exploration of clothing ...

During the 19th century, married women in England and Wales began to acquire ... Her health had also deteriorated, and she suffered from poor eyesight, severe headaches, epileptic fits and leg ...

Vivienne Richmond demonstrates the power of clothing in the lives of the working and indigent poor of nineteenth-century England: children, women and men. This is an innovative exploration of clothing ...

But nineteenth-century Americans were eager to represent ... Virtually by definition, women of color and poor white women were excluded from “true womanhood.” To the extent that white women ...

Throughout the 19th Century, it locked up women it suspected of soliciting students ... For the women caught up in in this system, "being poor, pretty and petulant seemed the biggest crime ...