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Out Shopping: The Dresses of Marion and Maud Sambourne at Leighton House review – brilliant social history

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Like clothes, fashion, shopping? You might like to step back just over a century to encounter a couple of twin souls, Marion Sambourne and her daughter Maud.

Leighton House, the fabulous home of , the artist, has a fascinating little exhibition of clothes owned by the wife and daughter of the Punch cartoonist, Linton Sambourne.

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