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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Eighteenth-century women constructed their material lives both deliberately through concerted and continuous practices of self-reflection and structured documentation and coincidentally through spontaneous procedural and incidental records of their interactions with the material world. The eighteenth century has been characterized as a period of material eruption in which consumers were faced with an increasingly sophisticated and rich material world. In response to this abundance of goods fresh behaviours for mediating individual relationships with the material world were fostered diversifying from the household inventory or account book. These supplementary methods of reporting and recording functioned outside of traditional production and consumption paradigms and acted as forms of material diary. Genteel eighteenth-century women I argue fashioned narratives of their lives through series of objects – both purchased and homemade – which sat at the conjunction of the manual labour of making and cultures of consumption. (SP)