ISBN:
9781472408969
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 286 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
305.48/22094109034
Keywords:
Middle class women Employment 19th century
;
History
;
Handicraft History 19th century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Großbritannien
;
Mittelstand
;
Frau
;
Berufstätigkeit
;
Kunsthandwerk
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrationsNotes 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 étude 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description / 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 étude 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
Note:
List of illustrations ; Notes on contributors ; Foreword
,
Introduction ; Industrious amateurism ; Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft
,
Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies
,
Pertinacious industry : the keyboard étude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20
,
Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50
,
The artistic career ; Contrary to the habits of their sex? : women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton
,
The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting"
,
Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional
,
Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales
,
The craft of self-fashioning ; Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer
,
Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist
,
"Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier
,
Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress
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