Frock Consciousness: Writing about Clothes from the London Review of Books by Anita Brookner, Rosemary Hill, Joanna Biggs, Angela Carter, Jenny Diski, David Nasaw, Alice Spawls, E.S. Turner, Kevin Kopelson, Anne Hollander, Elaine Showalter

Frock Consciousness: Writing about Clothes from the London Review of Books

LRB Collections #6

Anita Brookner, Rosemary Hill, Joanna Biggs, Angela Carter, Jenny Diski, David Nasaw, Alice Spawls, E.S. Turner, Kevin Kopelson, Anne Hollander, Elaine Showalter

104 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective medium-paced
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‘I don’t know when I’ll be going, but at least now I know what I’ll be wearing.’ – Elaine ShowalterVirginia Woolf coined the phrase ‘frock consciousness’ in January 1925. Speculating in her diary about women and their clothes, she wrote: ‘my love ...

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