Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists / edited by Jo Devereux.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Devereux, Joanna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women illustrators--History--19th century.

Women illustrators.

Women cartoonists--History--19th century.

Women cartoonists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 294 pages) : illustrations, plates (in colour); digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

19th century women illustrators and cartoonists

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Jo Devereux is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario.

Summary:

Nineteenth-century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists provides an in-depth analysis of fifteen women illustrators of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Jemima Blackburn, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Marianne North, Amelia Francis Howard-Gibbon, Mary Ellen Edwards, Edith Hume, Alice Barber Stephens, Florence and Adelaide Claxton, Marie Duval, Amy Sawyer, Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, Pamela Colman Smith and Olive Allen Biller. The chapters consider these women’s illustrations in the areas of natural history, periodicals and books, as well as their cartoons and caricatures. Using diverse critical approaches, the volume brings to light the works and lives of these important women illustrators and challenges the hegemony of male illustrators and cartoonists in nineteenth-century visual and print culture.

"Nineteenth-century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists explores the profound but seldom recognised impact of women artists on Victorian print and visual culture. The volume analyses the work of fifteen artists from the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth, including Marie Duval, Jemima Blackburn, Amy Sawyer and Jessie Marion King. Many of these women were highly successful in their lifetimes but have been largely forgotten since. Featuring chapters on natural history illustration, book and periodical illustration, cartoons, and caricatures, the volume offers a unique glimpse into the world of printed illustrations from the point of view of professional women artists, illustrators, and editors. More than a broad survey of the topic, Nineteenth-century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists breaks new ground by bringing together diverse critical approaches. It provides an essential foundation from which to study this fascinating subject."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Jo Devereux

Part I: Natural history illustration, 1855–90

1. Jemima Blackburn ‘believed in nothing’: horror, religion, and animal illustration / Bethan Stevens

2. Eleanor Vere Boyle’s ‘fantaisies’ and enchanted gardens / Laurence Talairach

3. I ‘wander and wonder and paint’: the botanical illustrations of Marianne North / Nancy V. Workman

Part II: Book illustration, cartoons, and caricature, 1859–1901

4. The ABCs of Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon: new views on her manuscript, ‘An Illustrated Comic Alphabet’ / Margo L. Beggs

5. ‘A genuine talent’: Mary Ellen Edwards / Simon Cooke

6. From London Society to The British Workwoman: Edith Hume’s journey to religious domestic illustration via Katwijk and Scheveningen beaches / Deborah Canavan

7. ‘This woman who predominated in all things’: Alice Barber Stephens’s drawings of Dorothea in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, 1899 / Nancy Marck Cantwell

8. Florence and Adelaide Claxton: frames, doorways, and domestic satire / Jo Devereux

9. Marie Duval: the methods and politics of attribution / Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, and Julian Waite

Part III: Illustration at the fin de siècle, 1890–1908

10. Romance fiction, folk tales, and poetry: Amy Sawyer and the Arts and Crafts movement / Kate Holterhoff

11. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale as a black-and-white artist / Pamela Gerrish Nunn

12. ‘The great within’: the illustrations of Jessie Marion King for Seven Happy Days / Carey Gibbons

13. Working against ‘that thunderous clamour of the steam press’:Pamela Colman Smith and the art of hand-coloured illustration / Lorraine Janzen Kooistra and Marion Tempest Grant

14. Olive Allen and the graphic nonchalance of the Modern Girl, illustrated / Jaleen Grove

Index

Plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication viewed on May 26, 2023.

ISBN:

9781526161680

1526161680

9781526161703

1526161702

OCLC:

1379265686