When the mid-Victorian women’s movement launched the Society of Female Artists in 1857, a figure of reference for many responding publicly to this move was needlework – a reference deployed rather to scoff at this innovation than to praise it. This essay explores the comparison thus made between needlework and fine artwork, analysing the tropes attached to both these fields in mid-Victorian discourse and their significance in the issues that made up the “woman question” of the period. It was made clear that needlework was, as Rozsika Parker’s pioneering feminist study proposed, assumed to absorb and ring-fence both women’s time and their creative aspirations while fine art was expected to display qualities foreign to femininity and thus see...
The Language of Flowers, a dictionary of symbolic meanings assigned to individual flowers, was estab...
The submission consists of two parts; the first is a written dissertation addressing the question of...
From the perspective of feminist analysis, the painting is considered to be androcentric. It is beli...
When the mid-Victorian women’s movement launched the Society of Female Artists in 1857, a figure of ...
This article explores intersections between portraiture, printed genre images, and conduct literatur...
This essay outlines Victorian cultural critic John Ruskin’s use of needlework. Paying particular att...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-348).“Unravelling a Pastime: Needlework and Needlew...
This thesis addresses needlework between 1920 and 1970 as a window into women’s broader experiences,...
Contemporary pieces of embroidery showing words made of human hair open up reflections upon how wome...
© 2008 Margaret Eleanor FraserThis thesis examines a group of more than one hundred needlework sampl...
This thesis investigates creative expression through needlework by wealthy or elite women in the eig...
This thesis deals with the intersection of art and Victorian gender. The first chapter will deal wit...
The feminization of needlework under patriarchal systems of power and oppression has reinforced both...
This thesis explores representations of women working in artistic professions in Britain in the sec...
Cette thèse traite de la question des travaux d'aiguille dans la littérature et la culture victorien...
The Language of Flowers, a dictionary of symbolic meanings assigned to individual flowers, was estab...
The submission consists of two parts; the first is a written dissertation addressing the question of...
From the perspective of feminist analysis, the painting is considered to be androcentric. It is beli...
When the mid-Victorian women’s movement launched the Society of Female Artists in 1857, a figure of ...
This article explores intersections between portraiture, printed genre images, and conduct literatur...
This essay outlines Victorian cultural critic John Ruskin’s use of needlework. Paying particular att...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-348).“Unravelling a Pastime: Needlework and Needlew...
This thesis addresses needlework between 1920 and 1970 as a window into women’s broader experiences,...
Contemporary pieces of embroidery showing words made of human hair open up reflections upon how wome...
© 2008 Margaret Eleanor FraserThis thesis examines a group of more than one hundred needlework sampl...
This thesis investigates creative expression through needlework by wealthy or elite women in the eig...
This thesis deals with the intersection of art and Victorian gender. The first chapter will deal wit...
The feminization of needlework under patriarchal systems of power and oppression has reinforced both...
This thesis explores representations of women working in artistic professions in Britain in the sec...
Cette thèse traite de la question des travaux d'aiguille dans la littérature et la culture victorien...
The Language of Flowers, a dictionary of symbolic meanings assigned to individual flowers, was estab...
The submission consists of two parts; the first is a written dissertation addressing the question of...
From the perspective of feminist analysis, the painting is considered to be androcentric. It is beli...