Brosnahan, Seán G.,  1962- <br/><br/>
Women of substance :  the Otago women who wore "fabulous frocks / 
Seán G. Brosnahan. 
 - 60 pages :  illustrations (some colour), colour maps, portraits ;  30 cm 
<br/><br/>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). 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0908910533 9780908910533 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--New Zealand--Otago--19th century--Biography.<br/>Women--History--New Zealand--Otago<br/>Dresses--History--New Zealand--Otago--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>920.72099391