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Item Number: 128043
Title: Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century : Artistry and Industry in Britain
Author: Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki ; Patricia Zakreski (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781472408969
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 306pp., 35 b&w illus. Contents: Foreword, Linda H. Peterson; Introduction: art and industry - the process of female professionalization, Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Patricia Zakreski; Part I 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 England, 1804-20, Elizabeth Morgan; Dresses and drapery: female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-1850, Alice Barnaby. Part II 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 stars 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. Part III The Craft of Self-Fashioning: Negotiating fame: mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer, Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi; Crafting the woman artist: Ouida and Ariadnê, Andrew King; ‘Mady’s tightrope walk’: the career of Marian Huxley Collier, Valerie Sanders; Living art: Michael Field, aestheticism and dress, Ana Parejo Vadillo; Index.
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