Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain / [electronic resource] :
edited by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Patricia Zakreski.
- Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.
- xx, 286 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Middle class women--Employment--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Handicraft--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Electronic books.
HQ1597 / .C753 2013eb
305.48/22094109034
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Middle class women--Employment--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Handicraft--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Electronic books.
HQ1597 / .C753 2013eb
305.48/22094109034