title: Accessorizing Agency: Nineteenth Century Women’s Fashion Adornments
abstract: In many of Queen Victoria's photographed portraits, from an online collection, she is captured on film decorated in twinkling baubles, from necklaces to earrings, and most often clutching a beautiful fan-sometimes of lace and other times ornately painted [plate 1]. 1 Accompanying these accessories is always a delicate, seemingly soft headdress that blankets her dark hair and trails down her back.In outside group photographs, the fashionable Queen can be spotted with an assortment of feathered-an
journal: Journal of international women's studies