needlewoman

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Recent Examples of needlewoman One hundred and fifty years later, young Isobel, a gifted needlewoman, dreams of her own escape from the limited options open to women; her greatest desire is to own a dressmaking shop. Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2022 Set in the 1930s, Chevalier’s new novel follows a woman whose fiancé died in World War I and who finds a sense of community among the guild of needlewomen embroidering kneelers for the pews at one of Britain’s great cathedrals. New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
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  • The 1904 murder trial of young seamstress Frieda Keller may have taken place in St. Gallen, Switzerland and may, despite its major impact, not be widely known.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
  • His father was a coal miner, his mother a seamstress, whose first husband, James Monroe Cross, had been an amateur painter of local scenes.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025

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