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Dressing for the Reader The Fatal Dress: 'Roxana' Daniel Defoe Talkabout Muslin: 'Northanger Abbey,' Jane Austen Unrepentant Dandies:'Pendennis,' William Thackeray The Woman in White and the Woman in Colour:Wilkie Collins;' 'Woman in White' and Mary Braddon's 'Lady Audley's Secret''Mind and Millinery': George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' Shades of White: HenryJames's, 'The Siege of London' and 'The Author of Beltraffio' ConsumingClothes: Edith Wharton's 'The House of Mirth' The Missing Wedding Dresses:Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela' to Anita Brookner's 'Hotel Du Lac'