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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 49–68.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Lise Shapiro Sanders Abstract This essay examines a multicolored woolen shawl owned by the poet Emily Dickinson. Contemporary writings from the period referred to such textiles as “India shawls,” although the provenance of Dickinson’s shawl is unknown. India shawls frequently appear in sources...
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Figure 2. Detail of shawl border, reverse side. Photograph by the author.
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Figure 3. Emily Dickinson’s paisley shawl, atop her bed, in noon light. Photograph by The Emily Dickinson Museum.
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Figure 4. India shawl worn as a cloak, front and back. Harper’s Bazaar , April 1, 1882.
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 121–143.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Brazil received ships from the African coast with așǫ oke , a handwoven fabric created by the Yorùbás to be used as head wraps or to be sewn and worn as shawls by Black women. This and other fabrics, such as wax prints, enter the terreiros as a search for aesthetic...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 October 2022
... its wide panniers; fringed and embroidered Spanish shawls and even Spanish combs were in vogue. 11 Photographs on the “Mainly for Women” page of the Sunday Pictorial demonstrate that the fringe on Spanish shawls carried over to dresses, with hairstyles echoing the look through combs ( fig. 2...
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Figure 2. From Sunday Pictorial , August 28, 1921. The “Mainly for Women” section highlights a model wearing a fringed Spanish shawl with a Spanish comb in her hair.
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (2): 159–166.
Published: 01 December 2005
... endured A more propitious season must succeed; And all by various signs can estimate T hat flowers and fruits we yet shall see in bloom .15 The imagery bears resemblance to the wintry ambience of Christina s poem: Today s a nipping day, a biting day; / In which one wants a shawl, / A veil, a cloak...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 283–290.
Published: 01 September 2006
... in the lightning run th ro u g h m y black stocking in the patent fi restrap o f m y black shoe in the satin p illo w fu l o f m oney burning in the glass shawl I'll break to wear. Thank you you never fail to say and leave its picture splinters on the bed. Episodes in the History o f Photography: Mexico City, 1923...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 93–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Arabs, w ith silk shawls and silk turbans. The men, at least many of them, had their whole bodies naked, except a petticoat studded or ornamented w ith leather, blackamoor's teeth, beads, and strange sorts of things th a t you see on the stage. They were armed w ith guns, all surrounding me, and firing...
