# Unfolding the Past - Hardcover

by **Elizabeth Wilson** (Author)

**Fascinating****. _Perspective_**  
**"A fascinating, often funny, and eminently stylish personal memoir ... I loved it." -** **Chris Breward, author of _The Suit_**  
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"Wide-ranging, thought-provoking and important." - Claire Wilcox, author of _Patch Work_**

Elizabeth Wilson is a pioneer of fashion studies, yet she never intended to become an academic. Starting her literary career as a feminist activist writing for the underground press, she went on to explore tennis, 'bohemians' and of course fashion - her obsession - along with forays into fiction. Throughout, she has never seen her work as abstract or disengaged from 'real life'.

In her memoir, she traces this relationship between personal experience and her writing, revisiting pivotal moments from childhood, adolescence and adult life to explore her belief that research, by its nature, is always a form of autobiography. She unfolds the garment of her life in a wide-ranging exploration of scenes from her past: her difficult relationship with her mother, fashion in the 60s and gay liberation. In this journey through time she shows how experiences are inseparable from the way we seek to explain and understand them, offering a unique and deeply personal account of her - and our - cultural world.

### Author Biography

**Elizabeth Wilson** is a pioneer in the development of fashion studies, and has been a university professor, feminist campaigner and activist. Her writing career began in the 'underground' magazines of the early 1970s, (_Frendz_, _Red Rag_, _Spare Rib_, _Come Together_) before she became an academic. She's written for the _Guardian_ and her non-fiction books include _Adorned in Dreams_ (1985, 2003), _The Sphinx in the City_ (1992) (shortlisted for the Manchester Odd Fellows Prize), _Bohemians_ (2000) and _Love Game_ (2014) (long listed for the William Hill sportswriting prize), as well as six crime novels, including _War Damage_ (2009) and _The Girl in Berlin_ (2012) (long listed for the Golden Dagger Award).

**Number of Pages:** 296

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.76 x 5.81 IN

**Publication Date:** June 30, 2022

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