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No More Corsets

Rosemary Hill: Dressing the Revolution, 6 March 2025

Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women who Styled the French Revolution 
by Anne Higonnet.
Norton, 286 pp., £25, April 2024, 978 0 393 86795 4
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... or killed because of what they do or do not wear, clothes may be a matter of life or death. Anne Higonnet’s new book is somewhat belied by its subtitle, which plays to the idea of fashion as accessory to the mainstream of history. ‘Styled’ suggests that her subjects hovered on the edge of the revolution, adding a cockade here and ...

The Necessary Talent

Julian Barnes: The Morisot Sisters, 12 September 2019

Berthe Morisot 
Musée d’Orsay (until 22 September)Show More
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... they didn’t get enough praise for their work. He was, in the words of Morisot’s biographer Anne Higonnet, ‘loyal but aimless’; he was also happy to assist with the practicality of exhibitions when she was too busy painting. Family life and motherhood did not overtake or interrupt her art. On the contrary: she claimed them as her subject ...

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