@article{ntn 8635, author = {Lynda Nead}, title = {Victorian Beauty…1945–1955}, volume = {2023}, year = {2023}, url = {http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/8635/}, issue = {34}, doi = {10.16995/ntn.8635}, abstract = {This article examines the reworking of Victorian beauty in the visual culture of post-war Britain. Although the work of post-war modernization and reconstruction was regarded as a symbolic break with the nineteenth-century past, the Victorian age continued to haunt the nation in the years following the end of the war, generating its own distinctive fascination and beauty. Focusing on an historical melodrama, <i>Pink String and Sealing Wax</i> (UK; dir. Robert Hamer, 1945), the article examines the narrative and its star, Googie Withers, in order to examine the role, meaning, and appeal of Victorianism and Victorian beauty in the post-war years.<br>}, month = {3}, keywords = {post-war Britain,beauty,sexuality,film,Victorianism,dress}, issn = {1755-1560}, publisher={Open Library of Humanities}, journal = {19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century} }