List of illustrationsNotes 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. 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 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 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. |
