No Bottom to Them
Freya Johnston: Pockets, like Novels, 5 December 2019
The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900
by Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux.
Yale, 264 pp., £35, May 2019,978 0 300 23907 2 Show More
by Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux.
Yale, 264 pp., £35, May 2019,
“... form and drawing on the evidence of art, literature and social history. Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux hope ‘to show how social and cultural practices are materially embodied within artefacts themselves’. Women’s agency is the key concern throughout.In The Tempest, Prospero’s brother Antonio imagines one of Gonzalo’s pockets being ... ”
