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In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. <i>Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia</i> explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing.<br><br>Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework'
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Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Lorinda Cramer;
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350069640
- Category
- design
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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