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Women in the Victorian art world

Title
Women in the Victorian art world / edited by Clarissa Campbell Orr.
Publication
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St Martin's Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
Orr, Clarissa Campbell.
Description
xii, 208 pages : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm
Subject
  • Guest, Charlotte, Lady, 1812-1895
  • Women artists > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Women art critics > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Art, Victorian > Great Britain > History
  • Art > History > Great Britain > 19th century
Note
  • Includes a chapter on Charlotte Guest, later Schreiber.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / Kate Perry -- Introduction / Clarissa Campbell Orr -- Pt. I. Women, art and the public sphere. 1. Art, ambition and sisterhood in the 1850s / Jan Marsh. 2. Women artists and the politics of feminism 1850-1900 / Deborah Cherry. 3. Vistas of pleasure: women consumers of urban space in the West End of London 1850-1900 / Lynne Walker -- Pt. II. Culture, criticism and connoisseurship. 4. The Corinne complex: gender, genius and national culture / Clarissa Campbell Orr. 5. Critically speaking / Pamela Gerrish Nunn. 6. Private pleasure public beneficence: Lady Charlotte Schreiber and ceramic collecting / Ann Eatwell -- Pt. III. The making of the woman artist. 7. Amusement or instruction? Watercolour manuals and the woman amateur / Francina Irwin. 8. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, artist and activist / Pam Hirsch. 9. Art education for women in the 1860s: a decade of debate / Sara M. Dodd.
ISBN
  • 0719041228
  • 0719041236 (pbk)
LCCN
gb 95043312
OCLC
  • 32552132
  • ocm32552132
  • SCSB-14341534
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries