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The Button Box
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  • Published: 15 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9780099593096
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

The Button Box

Lifting the Lid on Women's Lives

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14 Apr 2016
Paperback
15 May 2017
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An ingenious tour of domestic and social history over the last century (Guardian) - the story of women in the twentieth century told through the clothes they wore


A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight’s family – each one with its own tale to tell...

Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in suffragettes, bachelor girls, little dressmakers, Biba and the hankering for vintage, The Button Box lifts the lid on women’s lives and their clothes with elegance and wit.
  • Published: 15 May 2017
  • ISBN: 9780099593096
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Lynn Knight

Lynn Knight was born in Derbyshire and lives in London. The women of her family, who have passed on many stories along with beaded bags and buttoned gauntlets, fostered her interest in the texture and narratives of women's lives. She is also the author of the biography Clarice Cliff (2005), and a memoir, Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family (2011).

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