TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brosnahan,Seán G.
ED  - Otago Settlers Museum
TI  - Women of substance: the Otago women who wore "fabulous frocks 
SN  - 0908910533
U1  - 920.72099391 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - [Dunedin, N.Z.]
PB  - Otago Settlers Museum
KW  - Women
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Otago
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Dresses
N1  - 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)
N2  - "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
ER  -