Barbara Johnson’s Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746-1823

Serena Dyer

doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12616

Barbara Johnson’s Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746-1823

Serena Dyer

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This article examines Barbara Johnson’s Album, a prolific record of the dress consumption of a Reverend’s daughter. The Album contains over one-hundred samples of dress fabrics acquired by Johnson between the ages of eight and eighty-five. Interrogated alongside the Johnson family correspondence, and didactic tools produced by Johnson’s mother, this article argues that the Album acted as a material form of account book: conceived as a moral, financial, and material regulator. Considered within the emerging framework of material knowledge and consumer skill, the Album provides important evidence of how consumers maintained and developed their material literacy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	263-282
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume	42
Issue number	3
Early online date	20 Mar 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12616
Publication status	Published - Sept 2019

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© 2019 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dyer, S. (2019) Barbara Johnson's Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746‐1823. Journal for Eighteenth‐Century Studies, 42: 263– 282., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12616. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
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