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Showing posts with label nineteenth century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nineteenth century. Show all posts
Friday, June 28, 2019

How 19th century ideas influenced today's attitudes to women’s beauty

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In the 19th century, a range of thinkers attempted to pinpoint exactly what it was that made a woman beautiful. Newly popular women’s magazi...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

“For the Sake of the School”: The History of the Girls’ School Story

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Frontispiece of The Governess (1749): The girls have their covetous eyes on the apples A few months ago, Routledge published a six-vo...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

The History of Dolls: V & A Museum of Childhood

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Jem and Stormer of Jem and the Holograms c.1986 During the past week in London, I've managed to fit in some unofficial research ab...
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