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  • Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

    Commitment, Friendship, Pleasure

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Women in the 19th century have long been presented as the angel in the house. The author re-writes this history by investigating the life and working conditions of a number of middle-class women who sought to establish themselves as professional artists in Scotland. Contrary to the orthodox view preoccupied with oppression and difficulty, the author ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935

    The Gender of Ornament

    Edición de Bridget Elliott, Janice Helland ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, studies have focused on the denigration of decorative work by leading male artists, frequently dismissed as fashionably feminine. With few exceptions, women have been cast as consumers rather than producers. The ... Leer más

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    The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs

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  • Three Castles Burning

    A History of Dublin in Twelve Streets

    de Donal Fallon ...
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  • A Woman Lived Here

    Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's Remarkable Women

    de Allison Vale ...
    'A pretty awesome present for the feminist in your life' - Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, author of Do It Like a WomanAt the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours 903 Londoners, and a walking tour of these sites brings to life the London of a bygone era. But only 111 of these blue plaques commemorate women.Over the centuries, London has been home to thousands of truly remarkable women who have ... Leer más

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  • A Queer Inheritance

    Alternative Histories in the National Trust

    de Michael Hall ...
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  • Violent Victorians

    Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

    By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and ... Leer más

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  • On Glasgow and Edinburgh

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    Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

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  • The 'perpetual fair'

    Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London

    de Anne Wohlcke ...
    Series series Gender in History
    Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were ... Leer más

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    The Birth and Evolution of London's Clubland

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  • A Little Gay History of Wales

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