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Recent News

  • Book News

    Eleanor’s long awaited, long researched, self-illustrated book, ‘Charlotte Brontë’s Life Through Clothes’ has recently been picked up by Bloomsbury and is currently in production. Watch out for exciting updates.

  • Online Shop Open!

    I’m excited to announce that my online shop is now open. You can explore my unique collection of cards and books. Postcards and prints to follow shortly!

  • Exhibition News

    Eleanor’s work is currently on show at the AHRC funded exhibition INSPIRED – The Art Of Making Historical Fashion at the Bankfield Museum, Halifax. It runs from January 2024 to the end of January 2025.

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Deep down, I have always stifled a desire to be a Blue Peter presenter, and to be paid to make things out of loo roll inserts and sticky back plastic. Clearly, the makers of these truly inventive shell dolls would be worthy applicants, indeed my tale
Today, I’ve been dipping in and out of 1870s fashion and have been struck by how dresses of little girls often mirrored the fashionable silhouettes of their mothers’ gowns, embodying societal ideals of modesty and decorum. When trawling t
I don’t know if I’m the only person who finds the rough, foundational, preliminary stage of creativity arduous and even worrying. I forget sometimes that I am not the only one who writes many drafts or jots down messy drawings or ideas on