1st Edition
Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica
By Chloe Northrop
Copyright 2024
272 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated metropolitan observers. In popular prints, novels, and serial publications, these women appeared to stray from "proper" British societal norms. Although many women who lived in the Caribbean island of Jamaica might have fit the model, extant writings from Ann Brodbelt, Sarah Dwarris, Margaret and Mary Cowper, Lady... Read more
Introduction
1. White Women in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
2. Jamaican Women in Sentimental Novels and Other Literature
3. The Brodbelt Family of Jamaica
4. Loyalists in Jamaica: The Cowper and Storrow Families
5. "Lively Colours & Shewy": Middling and Poorer Families in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
6. Self-Fashioning and Material Goods: The Case of Lady Maria Nugent
Conclusion
Biography
Chloe Northrop is a Professor of History at Tarrant County College. She received her Ph.D. in History with a Minor in Art History from the University of North Texas. Her research focuses on material culture in the Atlantic World during the long eighteenth century.
