Byline: Emma Kühnelt
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Looking through a lens: invention and domesticity in Victorian women’s needlework (Part I)
A small object in the Whipple Museum for the History of Science at Cambridge University grants a unique insight into the world of Victorian domestic technology. The Lady’s Companion to the Worktable consists of a magnifying glass attached to a pincushion. At the base of the pincushion, a paper label states that the object was…