Business of Beauty. Gender and body in modern London
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- Author(s) Clark, Jessica P
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2020
- Pages 352pp; illus
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly work dealing with the 'beauty industry' of Victorian and Edwardian London, the consumption of its services and products and of the entrepreneurs who provided the services and made the products. Structured round case studies of selected entrepreneurs - Agnes Headman, Aimée Lloyd; Sarah Leverson, Madame Rachel; Jeanette Pomeroy; Robert Douglas; H P Truefitt; Eugene Rimmel; Helena Rubinstein. Appendix 1 provides profiles of 53 of London's 19th and early 20th century beauty providers [pp203-13]. For individual case studies see separate BHE entries