Business of beauty : gender and the body in modern London /
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[London, England] :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Modern Beauty
- London Beauty
- Selling British Beauty
- Locating Beauty Brokers
- 1. "Backmewsy" Beauty: Agnes Headman and Aimee Lloyd
- Building a British Beauty Business
- "Hangers-On to a Fashionable Situation"
- Agnes Headman, 24 Savile Row
- Aimee Lloyd, 3 Spur Street
- Conclusions
- 2. Upstarts and Outliers: Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson
- Trials of Madame Rachel
- Bond Street Secrets
- "The Little Back-Parlour"
- "Arabian Baths" and the Female Body
- Perfumers versus "Perfumers"
- Conclusions
- 3. Mobilizing Men: Robert Douglas and H. P. Truefitt
- In the Cutting-Rooms
- "Unscrupulous and Sneakish Means"
- From East to West
- "A New Phase in London"
- Conclusions
- 4. Professionalizing Perfumery: Eugene Rimmel
- "La Petite France"
- National Spectacle and "British" Beauty
- "Natural" Beauty and Global Exchange
- Continental Competition
- Perfuming Empire
- Conclusions
- 5. Female Enterprise at the Fin-de-Siecle: Jeannette Pomeroy
- Rise of the Beauty Culturist
- Mrs. Pomeroy's Debut
- Jeannette Pomeroy v. Jeannette Scale
- Beauty on Trial
- Conclusions
- 6. From Beauty Culturists to Beauty Magnates: Helena Rubinstein
- Melbourne to Mayfair: Helena Titus Rubinstein
- London Look: Louise Winterfeldt
- American Ambitions: Dora Isabel Stock
- Titus at Trial
- Conclusions
- Epilogue
- Global Beauty
- British Beauty Enterprise
- British Beauty Today.