'a material girl in a material world': The fashionable female body in Victorian women's magazines

Journal of Victorian Culture

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 93-110

  Boardman, Kay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 55349089808     PISSN: 13555502     EISSN: 17500133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13555509809505913     Document Type: Note

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