Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983.
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Rational Dress Society
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Sarah Grand | SG
campaigned for the Rational Dress Movement, which gained momentum in the 1880s when Lady Harberton
established the Rational Dress Society
(1881). |
| politics | Charlotte Stopes | CS
was involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and the Rational Dress Society
, which she ran in conjunction with Constance Wilde
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| politics | Oscar Wilde | Wilde (before the formation of the Rational Dress Society
) argued against tight-lacing dresses both in terms of health and in terms of aesthetics, and lobbied instead for loose dresses falling from the shoulder, which... |
| Textual Features | Sarah Grand | The tone of this novel is one of serious lecturing Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 36 Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press, 2004. 28 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | CEH
's writing, characterized by a friendly and humorous tone, sets out to make social norms and expectations palatable to a mass readership. Manners for Women opens with a chapter on The Girl in Society... |
Timeline
1881
Lady Harberton
founded the Rational Dress Society
which proposed dress reform for women, denounced tight-lacing and high heels, and advocated divided skirts.
1899
A lawsuit was brought against Martha Sprague
, landlady of the Hautboy Inn at Ockham in Surrey, after she refused to serve Viscountess Harberton
, founder of the Rational Dress Society
, with lunch...