Women of substance : the Otago women who wore "fabulous frocks / Seán G. Brosnahan.
Material type: TextPublisher: [Dunedin, N.Z.] : Otago Settlers Museum, [2008]Description: 60 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0908910533
- 9780908910533
- 920.72099391 22
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Introduction. The exhibition 'Fabulous Frocks'. A la mode in the mud : the colonial pursuit of fashion. The colonists' dream : genteel, respectable and upwardly mobile. In search of the women behind the dresses -- Group one : the Scottish pioneers. Jeanie Stevenson (née Buchanan). Janet Thomson & Jane Stewart (née Thomson) -- Group two : the Taieri girls. Elizabeth Leitch (née Adam). Ann Bathgate (née Grant). Jessie Dackers (née Murdoch). Margaret Duncan (née Reid) -- Group three : a Tokomairiro pioneer. Elizabeth Bryce (née Clark) -- Group four : a Tuapeka pioneer. Janet Talboys (née Robertson) -- Group five : the South Otago girls. Mary Souness (née Meiklejohn). Mary Watt (née Taylor). Margaret Landreth (née Henderson). Wilhelmina Morice -- Group six : the North Otago girls. Catherine Key (née Marshall). Agnes Muldrew (née McLeod) -- Group seven : the Irish girls. Mary Murney (née Athy). Margaret Curran (née Keane). Maria Moir (née Larkin) -- Group eight : the 'well-to-do' girls. Rachel Downie Stewart (née Hepburn). Annie Julia White (née Holmes). Marion Wither (née McHarg). Jane Gow (née Grey).
"Fabulous Frocks was the title of an exhibition held at the Otago Settlers Museum in 2003. The exhibition presented 39 dresses from the Museum's costume collection ... worn by nineteenth-century Otago women"--Introd.
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