Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century : artistry and industry in Britain / edited by Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and Patricia Zakreski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki, 1976-

Zakreski, Patricia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class women--Employment--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Handicraft--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-15865-2

1-315-57456-X

1-317-15864-4

1-4724-0897-7

OCLC:

858762758