- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; illustrated edition edition (18 Oct 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184408275X
- ISBN-13: 978-1844082759
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 583,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This little book will make you proud to be part of the shopping sisterhood' - Good Housekkeping
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Jane Austen found her sister Cassandra a locket. Joan Didion bought nail enamel and a toaster on impulse. Karyn Bosnak charged $20,000 on credit cards, and Elizabeth Wurtzel got caught shoplifting. George Eliot, for some reason, hated shopping. As people began to shop more, novelists imagined them doing it. Jane Eyre cringes at Mr Rochester's pre-wedding excess, while Undine Spragg's spending drives her husband to despair. The Girl with a Pearl Earring turns up her nose at some stale meat, Tom Ripley lusts after Venetian leather, and Mrs Dalloway chooses flowers on Bond Street. The darker side of shopping is here in the letters, diaries and memoirs of those who remember blackmarkets and rations. There are even records from the Old Bailey of audacious and desperate five-finger discounts, and a recent account of brawling at IKEA. The Virago Book of Shopping revels in the lists, the etiquette and the thrills of finding just the right thing. This is it. Buy it.
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I'm always suspicious of anthologies - they usually re-collate things one has read a hundred times before. This anthology, however, takes in Jane Carlyle, Jane Austen, and Justine Picardie; there are a few old favourites (Scruples, Bridget Jones) but a lot of absolute delights (Isabella Bird, Lady Burton) and a date range from the 1400s to right now. Poverty-line household budgets? check. First World War officer provisions? check. It's a fascinating mix of social history and complete frivolity. It doesn't hurt that the book looks like a gift package from the very famous jeweller with the pale blue boxes. Seriously, if you have no idea what to buy her for Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, anniversary, birthday - this is the book.
Format:Paperback
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It brought together the best of both worlds -reading and shopping. As women, the need to shop, for survival as well as enjoyment, is in our DNA. It's interesting to see that while many things have changed about the worldwide marketplace over the centuries, others have remained the same and will probably do so for centuries to come.
As a small business owner, I particularly loved the "Behind the Counter" section. As a shopper, I loved the rest. On the whole, the combination of fiction, non-fiction and letters, diary entries and the like makes this book a little gem. I would give copies of this book to all the women in my family and my dearest female friends.
As a small business owner, I particularly loved the "Behind the Counter" section. As a shopper, I loved the rest. On the whole, the combination of fiction, non-fiction and letters, diary entries and the like makes this book a little gem. I would give copies of this book to all the women in my family and my dearest female friends.
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