About this item
Jane Austen was as skillful with a needle as she was with a pen, and this unique book showcases rare and beautiful embroidery patterns from her era, repurposed into 15 modern sewing projects. Derived from Lady's Magazine (17701832), a popular monthly periodical of fashion, fiction, and gossip, the projects consist of embroidered clothes, accessories, and housewares. Designs include an evening bag, a muslin shawl, an apron, a floral napkin set and tablecloth, and other pretty and practical items with timeless appeal.
About the Author
ennie Batchelor lives in Surrey, UK, with her partner and two children, and teaches at the University of Kent. She has written and edited several books on women's writing, eighteenth-century dress and early women's magazines, and regularly gives public lectures and writes articles and guest blogs on these and other subjects. In April 2016 Jennie appeared on the New Statesman's Hidden Histories podcast series, 'The Great Forgetting: Women Writers before Jane Austen', and in 2017 she was invited to speak at the Cheltenham Literary Festival with Lucy Worsley and Sarah Moss about the enduring popularity of Jane Austen. She can regularly be heard on podcasts, the radio and sometimes on TV.Jennie's longstanding interest in the history of fashion and needlework led to her curation of 'The Great Lady's Magazine Stitch Off', a project for which people around the world recreated rare, surviving embroidery patterns from the Lady's Magazine for an exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's Emma at Chawton House Library. She is Patron of the Kent (UK) branch of the Jane Austen Society.
