Publications

Sarah A. Bendall, Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body, and Women in Early Modern England (London: Bloomsbury, 2021)

Sarah A. Bendall, ‘The queens’ dressmakers: women’s work and the clothing trades in late seventeenth-century London‘, Women’s History Review 32, 3 (2023): 389-414.

Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Female Personifications and Masculine Forms: Gender, Armour and Allegory in the Habsburg-Valois Conflicts of sixteenth-Century Europe’, Gender & History 35, 1 (2023): 42-67.

Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Whalebone and the Wardrobe of Elizabeth I: Whaling and the Construction of Aristocratic Fashions in Sixteenth-Century Europe‘, Apparence(s): Histoire et Culture du Paraître, Special Issue on ‘Modes Animales’, edited by Ariane Fennetaux and Gabriele Mentges (2022). https://doi.org/10.4000/apparences.3653

Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Adorning Masculinities? The Commissioning and Wearing of Hat Badges during the Habsburg-Valois Italian Wars‘, Sixteenth Century Journal 52, 3, (2021): 539-70.

Sarah A. Bendall, ‘Women’s Dress and the Demise of the Tailoring Monopoly: Farthingale-makers, body-makers and the changing textile marketplace of seventeenth-century London’, Textile History, 52, 1-2 (2021): 23-55. DOI: 10.1080/00404969.2021.1913470 

Sarah A. Bendall, ‘The case of the “french vardinggale”: A Methodological Approach to Reconstructing and Understanding Ephemeral Garments’, in Fashion Theory, Special Issue on ‘The Making Turn’, edited by Peter McNeil and Melissa Bellanta 23, 3 (2019): 363-399.

Sarah A. Bendall, ‘”Take Measure of your Wide and Flaunting Garments”: The Farthingale, Gender and the Consumption of Space in Elizabethan and Jacobean England’, Renaissance Studies 33, 5 (2019): 712-737.

Sarah Anne Bendall, ‘To Write a Distick upon It: Busks and the Language of Courtship and Sexual Desire in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England’, in Gender & History 26, 2, (2014): 199–222.

‘”Whales died so women could look like this”: what shows like Bridgerton get wrong about whalebone and corsetry’, The Conversation (18 May 2023)

‘Picking up a King Charles III coronation commemorative plate? You’re buying into a centuries-old tradition‘, The Conversation (2 May 2023)

‘Madness, miscarriages and incest: as in House of the Dragon, real-life royal families have seen it all throughout history‘, The Conversation (26 August 2022)

‘Remaking history: in hand-making 400-year-old corset designs, I was able to really understand how they impacted women‘, The Conversation (21 February 2022)

“‘I die where I cling’: garters and ‘busks’ inscribed with love notes were the sexy lingerie of the past”, via The Conversation (11 February 2021)

‘Isabella’s Undergarments’, Digital Humanities Project Clothing and textiles at the court of Mantua: Fashioning Isabella d’Este. Australasian Centre for Italian Studies, in collaboration with the Isabella D’Este Archive project.

‘Lady Mary FitzRoy: The People’s Lady,‘ St. John’s Cemetery Project, (2020), https://stjohnscemeteryproject.org/