July/August 1997
In This Issue July/August 1997
A Grand Design
Treasures and trifles from the Victoria and Albert Museum are coming to America.
Volume 18, Issue 4
These modern, bright blue, punch leather, "mock-croc" platform shoes designed by Vivienne Westwood, are part of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Victoria and Albert Museum
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Features
When Art and Morality Collide
How Rosetti and Wilde tested Victorian sensibilities.
By James SwaffordDear Harry . . . Dear Wm
The letters of the James brothers offer a window to the nineteenth century.
By John J. McDermottLouisa May Alcott's Long-Lost Novel
A seventeen-year-old's scribbles reveal the writer to come.
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Departments
Conversation
A Conversation with Drew Gilpin Faust
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust and Chairman Sheldon Hackney discuss how the Civil War changed Southern women.




































































































