02878nam 2200649 a 450 991078976800332120230725032206.00-19-025281-21-283-23218-997866132321820-19-978105-2(CKB)2670000000113202(EBL)760046(OCoLC)747410636(SSID)ssj0000539618(PQKBManifestationID)11357051(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539618(PQKBWorkID)10571510(PQKB)10256587(StDuBDS)EDZ0001021783(Au-PeEL)EBL760046(CaPaEBR)ebr10493951(CaONFJC)MIL323218(MiAaPQ)EBC760046(EXLCZ)99267000000011320220100914d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNovel craft[electronic resource] Victorian domestic handicraft and nineteenth-century fiction /Talia SchafferOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20111 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-933856-6 0-19-539804-1 Includes bibliographical references and index."Women's" work: the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft -- Ephemerality: the Cranford papers -- Preservation: the daisy and the chain -- Salvage: Betty as the mutual friend -- Connoisseurship: giving credit to Phoebe junior.Domestic handicraft was an extraordinarily popular leisure activity in Victorian Britain, especially amongst middle-class women. Craftswomen pasted shells onto boxes, stitched fish scales onto silk, scorched patterns into wood, cast flower petals out of wax, and made needlework portraits of the royal spaniels. Yet despite its ubiquity, little has been written about this curious hobby. Providing a much-needed history of this under-studied phenomenon, Talia Schaffer demonstrates the importance of domestic handicraft in Victorian literature and culture. Novel Craft presents what Schaffer terms.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismWomen in literatureDomestic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismWomen and literatureEnglandHistory19th centuryEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Women in literature.Domestic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Women and literatureHistory823/.8093522Schaffer Talia1968-1559613MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789768003321Novel craft3824878UNINA