books.google.com - "The fifteen articles in this book address the seamstress's appearance as a 'real' figure in the changing economies of nineteenth-century Britain, America, and France, and as an important cultural icon in the art and literature of the period. They treat the many different types of needlewomen in the...http://books.google.com/books/about/Famine_And_Fashion.html?id=O34Kir5z2wcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFamine And Fashion