Quilts, 1700-2010 : hidden histories, untold stories / edited by Sue Prichard. - London : New York : V&A Publishing ; Distributed in North America by Harry N. Abrams, 2010. - 240 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm. + hbk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making and using quilts in eighteenth-century Britain / Patchwork on the page / The governor's daughter / Complexity and context: nineteenth-century British quilts / Sewing soldiers / Remember me: Ann West's coverlet / Creativity and confinement / Maintaining the craft: British quilt-making 1900-45 / Beneath the layers: conserving the "Pomegranate coverlet" / The Chapman coverlet: texts, myths and mysteries / Negotiating space: fabric and the feminine 1945-2010 / Stitchers in time and space: women in the long eighteenth century / His constant Penelope: epic tales and domestic narratives / Quilts 1970-2010: catalogue / Sue Prichard -- Clare Browne -- John Styles -- Clair Smith -- Linda Parry -- Christopher Breward -- Jenny Lister -- Sue Prichard -- Dorothy Osler -- Joanne Hackett -- Angela McShane, Ann Chrisite, Abigail Turner -- Sue Prichard -- Joanne Bailey -- Jacqueline Riding -- Claire Smith. Introduction /

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