This volume brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. It looks at women working outside conventional canons, and are shown how they negotiated relationships with canonical forms of artistic production across the different disciplines, focusing in each case on the gendered associations and exclusions and the implied structures of sexual difference, which may or may not be revealed. Women discussed include authors like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson, actresses such as Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson, women critics like Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke, historians such as Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith, the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists such as the Shiress sisters and translators like Anna Swanwick, as well as many others.
This volume brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. It looks at women working outside conventional canons, and are shown how they negotiated relationships with canonical forms of artistic production across the different disciplines, focusing in each case on the gendered associations and exclusions and the implied structures of sexual difference, which may or may not be revealed. Women discussed include authors like Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson, actresses such as Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson, women critics like Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke, historians such as Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith, the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists such as the Shiress sisters and translators like Anna Swanwick, as well as many others.
Introduction: Gender and Women’s History
Gill Perry, Anne Laurence, Joan Bellamy
Chapter 1: Musing On Muses: Representing The Actress as ‘Artist’ in
British Art of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth
Centuries
Gill Perry
Chapter 2: Distant Prospects and Smaller Circles: Questions of
Authority in Maria Edgeworth’s Irish Writings
Madeline Thompson
Chapter 3: Scholarship and Sensibility: Anna Jameson and Sydney
Morgan in Siren Land
Chloe Chard
Chapter 4: Mary Shelley as Editor of the Poems of Percy Shelley
Richard Allen
Chapter 5: Women and Education in Nineteenth Century England
Rosemary O’Day
Chapter 6:Mary Cowden Clarke’s Labours of Love
Cicely Palser Havely
Chapter 7: Women Historians and Documentary Research: Lucy Aikin,
Agnes Strickland, Mary Anne Everett Green, and Lucy Toulmin
Smith
Anne Laurence
Chapter 8:Margaret Oliphant, “Mightier than the mightiest of her
sex.”
Joan Bellamy
Chapter 9: ‘Hints on Household Taste’ and ‘The Art of Decoration’:
Authors, Their Audience and Gender in Interior Design
Colin Cunningham
Chapter 10: Women, Translation and Empowerment
Lorna Hardwick
Chapter 11: ‘I Love My Sex’: Two Late-Victorian Pulpit Women
Susan Mumm
Postscript
Bibliography
Biographies
Joan Bellamy was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Open University between 1984-1990, and founder and director of the Women in the Humanities Research Group. Anne Laurence is Senior Lecturer in History at the Open University. Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University
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