A Stitch In Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America
In October 1852, Amy Fiske (1785-1859) of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, stitched a sampler. But she was not a schoolgirl making a sampler to learn her letters. Instead, as she explained: “The above is what I have taken from my sampler that I wrought when I was nine years old. It was w[rough]t on fine c...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2010
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/181 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1175&context=open_access_dissertations |