Frock Consciousness: Writing about Clothes from the London Review of Books by Angela Carter, Joanna Biggs, Anne Hollander, David Nasaw, Alice Spawls, Anita Brookner, Rosemary Hill, Jenny Diski, Elaine Showalter, E.S. Turner, Kevin Kopelson

Frock Consciousness: Writing about Clothes from the London Review of Books

LRB Collections #6

Angela Carter, Joanna Biggs, Anne Hollander, David Nasaw, Alice Spawls, Anita Brookner, Rosemary Hill, Jenny Diski, Elaine Showalter, E.S. Turner, Kevin Kopelson

104 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective medium-paced
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‘I don’t know when I’ll be going, but at least now I know what I’ll be wearing.’ – Elaine ShowalterVirginia Woolf coined the phrase ‘frock consciousness’ in January 1925. Speculating in her diary about women and their clothes, she wrote: ‘my love ...

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