Book ReviewsVicki Howard. Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 288 pp.; 50 illustrations, bibliography, index. $34.95.
Aimee E. Newell. A Stitch in Time: The Needlework of Aging Women in Antebellum America. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. x+265 pp.; appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 (paper).
Book ReviewsDianne Sachko Macleod. Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800–1940. Berkeley: University of California Press with the Getty Foundation, 2008. xii+310 pp.; 12 color illustrations, 86 black‐and‐white photographs, notes, index. $45.00.
Embodied Life: High Spirits, Simple Pleasures Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing. By Judith Farquhar and Qicheng Zhang. New York: Zone Books, 2012.
