What is clear is that women were more likely to leave bequests of clothing than were men, though this was not unique to the period as a similar pattern has been observed in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wills. 45 They were also overwhelmingly more likely to leave clothing to other women than to the men in…
Bequeathing Clothing Part 2
Of these 530 women, 401 left wills and it is important to note that, of those who did, less than a third mentioned clothing in some way. This includes women bequeathing individual items to specific recipients, women requesting that their clothing be sold to cover final debts, widows bequeathing their late husband’s clothing, and women…
Bequeathing clothing
Wills have been interpreted as valuable evidence for women’s affective attachments both to people and to their possessions. Maxine Berg has been particularly influential in arguing that ‘bequests show us that women to a far higher degree than men noticed their possessions, attached value and emotional significance to these’, while Marcia Pointon has similarly suggested…
Intro 3 – Describing Women’s Clothing in England
To look across the social hierarchy, the book draws on a wide range of both manuscript and printed sources that have rarely been considered together, including account books, bills and receipts, court records, correspondence, newspaper advertisements, probate records, and administrative records of the old poor law. Discussion throughout pays careful attention to the circumstances of…
Intro 2 – Describing Women’s Clothing in England
My primary focus is on the written word, whether in pen and ink or printed, but with an awareness that this cannot be divorced from the wider material world it was used to describe. Written descriptions do not reflect the sum of knowledge about women’s clothing and textiles, and were not its only or perhaps…
Intro – Describing Women’s Clothing in England
Descriptions of clothing and textiles increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in eighteenth-century England, entangled with an expanding world of consumer goods that has already been well traced by historians. More importantly, what did it mean to consumers themselves? Much work has devoted its energies to addressing these questions, and the response has largely…
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Mental health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as not the mere absence of a mental health condition, but a state of well-being that allows individu-als to realize their full potential, demonstrate resilience in the face of adversity, be productive, make meaningful relationships, and contribute to their communities (World Health Organization, 2004). Of…
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As you move to the AWS cloud, you need to consider a number of security factors, including the following: For example, each EBS volume has multiple copies replicated within the data center where they are created. Amazon S3 objects are replicated across at least three separate availabil-ity zones within the selected AWS region, producing a…