The Button Box [electronic resource] : The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore
Knight, Lynn2016
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A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight's family – each one with its own tale to tell... Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in suffragettes, bachelor girls, little dressmakers, Biba and the hankering for vintage, The Button Box lifts the lid on women's lives and their clothes with elegance and wit.
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Author:
Knight, Lynn, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2016
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Lynn Knight was born in Derbyshire and lives in London. The women of her family, who have passed on many stories along with beaded bags and buttoned gauntlets, fostered her interest in the texture and narratives of women's lives. She is also the author of the biography Clarice Cliff (2005), and a memoir, Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family (2011).
ISBN:
9781448191536
Language:
English
BRN:
2801175
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