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Author:

Parmal, Pamela A.

Title:

Women's work : embroidery in colonial Boston / Pamela Parmal.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

MFA Publications ;

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

174 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Embroidery--Boston--Boston--History--18th century.
Embroidery--Boston--Boston--Themes, motives.--18th century--Themes, motives.
Sex role--Boston--Boston--History--18th century.
Women--History--Boston--Boston--History--18th century.
Boston (Mass.)--History--History--18th century.

Other Authors:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-158) and index.

Contents:

Early aspirations: Mary Holingworth English -- Genteel education: Mary Turfrey -- The domestic sphere: Mary Fifield Adams -- Economic opportunity: Susanna Hiller Condy -- Pictures in thread: Hannah Otis -- Fashionable accomplishments: Faith Trumbull Huntington -- Appendices. Boston samplers and their makers ; Dye analysis of Boston schoolgirl embroidered pictures.

Summary:

Tells the stories of six women and how needlework shaped their lives in the colonies' most important port city.

ISBN:

0878467785
9780878467785

OCLC:

(OCoLC)796084579

LCCN:

2011941242

Locations:

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)