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Author_Jill Foulston
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Product details
- ISBN 9781844082742
- Weight: 342g
- Dimensions: 200 x 133mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jane Austen found her sister Cassandra a locket. Joan Didion bought nail enamel and a toaster on impulse. Karyn Bosnak charged $20,000 on credit cards - and wild child Elizabeth Wurtzel got caught shoplifting. George Eliot, on the other hand, hated shopping. Those are the true stories, but there are hundreds of fictional shoppers: The Girl with the Pearl Earring turned up her nose at some stale meat; Tom Ripley lusted after Venetian leather goods, while Jane Eyre cringed at Mr Rochester's pre-wedding excess. This is the first anthology to feature writing about shopping by women throughout history. Buy it.
Jill Foulston is a former commissioning editor for the Virago Modern Classics. She lives in London and Italy.
