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    Hairdressers' Wax Models

    This is just a random note on something interesting I've been coming across whilst searching GoogleBooks.

    Hairdressers apparently kept wax busts in their shops as advertisement. Note that these are all of British origin.

    "Still it was a highly genteel establishment—quite first-rate in fact—and there were displayed in the window, besides other elegancies, waxen busta of a light lady and a dark gentleman which were the admiration of the whole neighbourhood."
    - 1839, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
    http://books.google.com/books?id=-vgtAAAAYAAJ&client=firefox-a
    When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father's death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and unscrupulous, and Nicholas finds himself forced to make his own way in the world. His adventures gave Dickens the opportunity to portray an extraordinary gallery of rogues and eccentrics: Wackford Squeers, the tyrannical headmaster of Dotheboys Hall, a school for unwanted boys; the slow-witted orphan Smike, rescued by Nicholas; and the gloriously theatrical Mr and Mrs Crummles and their daughter, the 'infant phenonenon'. Like many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his outrage at cruelty and social injustice, but it is also a flamboyantly exuberant work, revealing his comic genius at its most unerring.Mark Ford's introduction compares Nicholas Nickleby to eighteenth-century picaresque novels, and examines Dickens's criticism of the 'Yorkshire Schools', his social satire and use of language. This edition includes the original illustrations by 'Phiz', a chronology and a list for further reading.


    " Oh! Jack used to say she was for all the world as beautiful as any of the wax ladies in the barbers' shops; only, Mary, there were one little difference: her hair was bright grass green."
    - 1849, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life

    -Alaina
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