Parmal, Pamela A.
Boston : MFA Publications New York, N.Y. : [Distributed by] ARTBOOK/D.A.P., c2012.
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Notes:
- Tells the stories of six women and how needlework shaped their lives in the colonies’ most important port city.
- Early aspirations: Mary Holingworth English — Genteel education: Mary Turfrey — The domestic sphere: Mary Fifield Adams — Economic opportunity: Susanna Hiller Condy — Pictures in thread: Hannah Otis — Fashionable accomplishments: Faith Trumbull Huntington — Appendices. Boston samplers and their makers Dye analysis of Boston schoolgirl embroidered pictures.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-158) and index.
Subjects:
- Embroidery — Massachusetts — Boston — History — 18th century.
- Embroidery — Massachusetts — Boston — History — 18th century — Themes, motives.
- Sex role — Massachusetts — Boston — History — 18th century.
- Women — Education — Massachusetts — Boston — History — 18th century.
- Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs — History — 18th century.
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