The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives - Hardcover

Knight, Lynn

 
9780701188917: The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 070118891X ISBN 13: 9780701188917
Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

I used to love the rattle and whoosh of my grandma’s buttons as they scattered from their Quality Street tin.

An inlaid wooden chest the size of a shoe box holds Lynn Knight’s button collection. A collection that has been passed down through three generations of women: a chunky sixties-era toggle from a favourite coat, three tiny pearl buttons from her mother’s first dress after she was adopted as a baby, a jet button from a time of Victorian mourning. Each button tells a story.

‘They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us’ said Virginia Woolf of clothes. The Button Box traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity, through the first clerical girls in silk blouses, to the delights of beading and glamour in the thirties to short skirts and sexual liberation in the sixties.

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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).

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Verlag
Chatto & Windus
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
070118891X
ISBN 13 
9780701188917
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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