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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Devereux, Joanna, 1962- 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, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

Focuses on women illustrators in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It features critical essays by an international group of scholars on fourteen women illustrators from Britain, Canada and the United States.

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 online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 8, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526161680

1526161680

9781526161703

1526161702

OCLC:

1379265686