Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century : artistry and industry in Britain /Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi
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TextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd. | ;7/22,Ansari Road ,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: Burlington : Ashgate ,2013Description: xx,286 Pages ;24 cmISBN: 9781138276680Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Middle class women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.DDC classification: 305.4822 HAD | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 305.43294509542 ORR Donors, devotees, and daughters of God | 305.482 ANN Women and money : | 305.482 CEN Swayam sahayata samuh : Aapki kheti me ek or fasal | 305.4822 HAD Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century | 305.4869 FLU In Amma's healing room | 305.4869 MAH Politics of piety | 305.4869 SAR Hindu wife, Hindu nation |
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.
Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. How women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations, trades and professions in the domestic handicraft movements, music, design, commercial illustration, china painting, and authorship reveals the different ideological positions surrounding the transition of women from industrious amateurism to professional artistry.
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