Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl,The shopgirl was the subject of popular novels, newspaper articles, and political treatises on women's work and leisure at the turn of the twentieth century. But who exactly was she, and why did she feature in so many narratives about women, sexuality, and urban life? In Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880 1920, Lise Shapiro Sanders examines the cultural significance of the shopgirl both historical figure and fictional