Florence Viscountess Harberton

Standard Name: Harberton, Florence,,, Viscountess

Used Form: Lady Harberton

Connections

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politics	John Strange Winter	JSW 's interest in animal welfare was linked to her passion for dress reform, notably her opposition to the use of birds in decoration or fashion (a letter she wrote to Charlotte Yonge details how...
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). Kersley, Gillian. Darling Madame: Sarah Grand and Devoted Friend. Virago Press, 1983. 51-2 The movement sought to release women from the constraints of huge hoop...

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.

Kunzle, David. Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture in the West. Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.

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Gernsheim, Alison. Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey. Dover, 1981.

Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.

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...

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