Further Reading and Resources
Please find below a select list of print publications and websites that can help contextualise the fashion plates. The following is by no means exhaustive...
Fashion in the Georgian and Regency periods
Jennie Batchelor. 2005. Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Palgrave.
Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin. 2020. Jane Austen Embroidery: Authentic Patterns for Modern Stitchers. Pavilion.
April Callahan. 2015. Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style. Yale University Press.
Penelope Byrde. 1999. Jane Austen Fashion: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen. Excellent Press.
Hilary Davidson. 2019. Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion. Yale University Press.
Carolyn Day. 2017. Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease. Bloomsbury.
Chloe Wigston Smith. 2013. Women, Work and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press.
The Lady's Magazine
Alison Adburgham. 1972. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. Allen and Unwin.
Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer and Sandra Hebron. 1991. Women’s Worlds: Ideology, Femininity and Women’s Magazines. Macmillan.
Jennie Batchelor. 2022. The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History. Edinburgh University Press.
Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell. 2018. Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690s-1820s. Edinburgh University Press.
Margaret Beetham. 1999. A Magazine of her Own? Domesticity and Desire in the Women's Magazine, 1800-1914. Manchester University Press.
Edward Copeland. 1995. Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge University Press.
Web Resources
Jennie Batchelor, Koenraad Claes and Jenny DiPlacidi. 2016. The Lady’s Magazine Index - an index to over 14000 pieces of text content in the periodical between 1770-1818.
The Lady's Magazine (1770-1819): Patterns of Perfection - a sister site to Fashion in the Age of Bridgerton, this website showcases a rich selection of embroidery patterns from the Lady's Magazine