Painting women : Victorian women artists
Looks at the experience of women painters within the oppressive confines of the Victorian patriarchy. Using biographies, journals and letters Cherry shows how their working lives were shaped by the social order of difference.
Biography
xv, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415060530, 9780415060523, 0415060532, 0415060524
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Introduction: What's the Difference, Or Why Look at Women's Art?
1. Family Business
2. Spinsters and Friends
3. An Education in Difference Or an In/Different Education? Art Training for Women
4. Art Institutions and the Discourses of Difference
5. Professional and Public Identities
6. Making a Living
Differencing the Gaze
7. Difference and Domesticity
8. Working Women
9. From Towns to Countryside and Seaside
10. Cultural Collisions
App. 1. Artist-families in Norwich
App. 2. The women's petition to the Royal Academy of Arts, 1859