Lynn M. Alexander


 A professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Martin, Lynn M. Alexander is the co-editor of The Slaughter-House of Mammon: An Anthology of Victorian Social Protest Literature.


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Women, Work, and Representation

Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature

In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew; needlework was allied with images of domestic economy and with traditional female roles of wife and mother- with home rather than factory. The professional seamstress, however, labored long hours for very small wages creating gowns for the upper and middle classes.…

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