The Corset

  • The Corset: The captivating new novel from the prize-winning author of The Silent Companions
    By Laura Purcell

    The girls said he'd lost his feet to the frost. The thought of it haunted me: a rapacious cold, with teeth that gnawed through flesh.

  • The Corset
    By Laura Purcell

    "Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer?

  • The Corset: A Cultural History
    By Valerie Steele

    Perhaps the ribs appeared to be deformed — as in the famous illustration comparing corseted and uncorseted female ribcages from the German medical text, Uber die Wirkimgen der Schurbruste by Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring.1'4 The ...

  • The Corset: A Cultural History
    By Valerie Steele

    Steele explores the cultural history of the corset, demolishing myths about this notorious garment and revealing new information and perspectives on its changing significance over the centuries. 210 illustrations.

  • The Corset
    By Lewis Warsh

    Poetry. "THE CORSET is not a poem so much as a new way of seeing the world. In these sly and laconic epigrams, Lewis Warsh manages to explore the domain...

  • The Corset: And Other Forms Of Control
    By Mary Bridson

    These and other stories form an eclectic mix, drawn together by the concept of constraint – physical, psychological, social or emotional.

  • The Corset: And Other Forms Of Control
    By Mary Bridson

    These and other stories form an eclectic mix, drawn together by the concept of constraint – physical, psychological, social or emotional.