Hair, wigs and wig wearing in eighteenth-century England

This thesis explores the period of prominence experienced by wigs and wig wearing in England from the late seventeenth to the latter decades of the eighteenth century. Its primary focus is the ‘raw material’ from which wigs were made: human hair. Being produced from a part of the body placed wigs in...

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Main Author: Markiewicz, Emma
Published: University of Warwick 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.640999