The Needle and the Brush: A Victorian Drama

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 nee...

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Main Author: Pamela GERRISH NUNN
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2018-12-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/6661