How are embroidery, and the women who do it, portrayed in the years after the First World War?
This month Jessica takes us on a tour of post-war embroidery in Tracy Chevalier's A Single Thread and Dorothy Whipple's High Wages. Along the way we discuss surplus women, the varying perceptions of embroidery as skilled work, and the constant reminders of the First World War.
References:
Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread (2019)
Dorothy Whipple, High Wages (1930)
Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (1927)
Dorothy L. Sayers, Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928)
Herman Darewski and R.P. Weston, ‘Sister Susie’s Sewing Shirts for Soldiers’ (1914). This is Billy Murry’s 1915 version)
Janet S.K. Watson, Fighting Different Wars: Experience, Memory and the First World War (2004)
Alexia Moncrieff, Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in the First World War(2020)
Ana Carden-Coyne, ‘Butterfly Touch: rehabilitation, nature and the haptic arts in the First World War’, Critical Military Studies 6:2 (2020)
Lesley Glaister, Blasted Things (2020). See episode 9 of the podcast for our discussion with Lesley Glaister.
Armistice & After: Peace Project, Leeds City Museum 10th-18th November 2018:
27 - Over the Top Magazine
25 - The Contemporary Image of the Junior British Officer
24 - Football
23 - Charley's War
22 - Classical Imagery
21 - Russian Myth and Memory
20 - Short Stories
19 - Franz Ferdinand
18 - Sounds of War
17 - Theatre and the First World War
16 - 37 Days
15 - Computer Games
14 - Sam Mendes' 1917 and the Landscape
13 - Popular Films First World War Films
12 - Obscure First World War Films
11 - Board Games
10 - The Christmas Truce of 1914
09 - 'Blasted Things' with Lesley Glaister
08 - Dreamers of the Day: TE Lawrence
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