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Barbara Johnson’s Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746-1823
Dyer, Serena (2019-09)This article examines Barbara Johnson’s Album, a prolific record of the dress consumption of a Reverend’s daughter. The Album contains over one-hundred samples of dress fabrics acquired by Johnson between the ages of eight ... -
Fashioning Consumers : Ackermann’s Repository of Arts and the Cultivation of the Female Consumer
Dyer, Serena (Edinburgh University Press, 2018-01-31)Consumption has served as one of the key explanatory frameworks for economic and social change in eighteenth-century Britain. The influence of consumption on debates surrounding political and moral economy has been undeniable, ... -
Masculinities, Wallpaper, and Crafting Domestic Space within the University, 1795-1914
Dyer, Serena (2018-09)During renovations in the late 1990s, a ‘wallpaper sandwich’—made up of twelve preserved layers of wallpaper—was removed from the wall of a student room at Peterhouse College, at the University of Cambridge. This sandwich, ...