Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century : artistry and industry in Britain / / edited by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Patricia Zakreski.
Saved in:
| : | |
|---|---|
| TeilnehmendeR: | |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | xx, 286 p. :; ill. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword / Linda Peterson
- Introduction
- Industrious amateurism
- Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft / Talia Schaffer
- Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies / John Plunkett
- Pertinacious industry : the keyboard etude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20 / Elizabeth Morgan
- Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50 / Alice Barnaby
- The artistic career
- Contrary to the habits of their sex? : women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood
- The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson
- Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski
- Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn
- The craft of self-fashioning
- Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi
- Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King
- "Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders
- Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.