When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none.

This book is about a girl named Alice whose life turns upside down when she meets a boy named Valentine.

I loved it.” - Chris Breward, author of The Suit “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.

The definitive biography of one of the best-loved musicians of the twentieth-century, who was stricken with illness & died at the height of her career.

"Adopting the guise of a flaneur, Wilson reconsiders the classical imagery of the city from the viewpoints of diverse groups of women: bourgeois wives, prostitutes, transvestite writers, and others.

This revised edition, produced to coincide with the centenary of Shostakovich's birth, draws on many new writings on the composer.