Victims of fashion : animal commodities in Victorian Britain /
Animal products were used extensively in nineteenth-century Britain. A middle-class Victorian woman might wear a dress made of alpaca wool, drape herself in a sealskin jacket, brush her hair with a tortoiseshell comb, and sport feathers in her hat. She might entertain her friends by playing a piano...
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Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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