Prada Queen
Elaine Showalter: Shopping, 10 August 2000
Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London’s West End
by Erika Diane Rappaport.
Princeton, 323 pp., £21.95, January 2000,0 691 04477 5 Show More
by Erika Diane Rappaport.
Princeton, 323 pp., £21.95, January 2000,
“... declared that ‘Shopland is my club,’ London was ripe for the shaking. The American merchant Harry Gordon Selfridge, who trained at Marshall Field in Chicago, had done careful research on the women’s clubs to find out what women wanted; he presented himself as a friend to women’s emancipation and ‘characterised the department store as a comfortable ... ”