Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century

Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki 1976- Zakreski, Patricia. ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. vtu Burlington, Vt Ashgate 2013 monographic eng xx, 286 p. : ill. 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. edited by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Patricia Zakreski. Includes bibliographical references and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. e-uk--- Middle class women Employment Great Britain History 19th century Handicraft Great Britain History 19th century HQ1597 .C753 2013eb 305.48/22094109034 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10753235 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10753235 CaPaEBR 130213 ebr10753235