Product Description: The book examines the impact of modernism on the work of three women artists -- Laura Knight (b.1877), Vanessa Bell (b.1879) and Gwen John (b.1876) -- whose training and early artistic careers were rooted in the Victorian tradition...read more

Product Description: By the mid 1800s, the Pre-Raphaelites were the most talked about movement in contemporary cuture. Now, 150 years later, the popularity of leading (male) exponents such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and John Everett Millais is greater than ever, while the crucial role played by women artists has largely been forgotten...read more

Product Description: The work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their followers is enduringly popular and correspondingly familiar to a wide public. Works by women artists within the Pre-Raphaelite style have, however, largely been forgotten and ignored in the history of the movement...read more

Product Description: During the Victorian period there developed a new anxiety about male-female relations and roles in modern society. This was expressed by a member of the Athenaeum in 1858, "the distinction of man and woman, their separate as well as their joint rights, begins to occupy the attention of our whole community, and with no small effect"...read more