Louise Jopling - A Biographical and Cultural Study is the first in-depth study of this nineteenth-century painter who was among the first women admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (in 1902). In part an engaging biography of a compelling celebrity figure and social campaigner in Victorian England, Patricia de Montforta s book interweaves a vivid and rounded portrait of this Manchester-born artist, teacher, and author with insightful analysis of Joplinga s artwork and the aristocratic-bohemian social milieu that she inhabited. Painted by Whistler and Millais, Jopling herself...
Louise Jopling - A Biographical and Cultural Study is the first in-depth study of this nineteenth-century painter who was among the first women admitt...
Arthur Oa Shaughnessya s career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, provides the context with which to reexamine his contributions to Victorian poetry. Oa Shaughnessya s engagement with aestheticism, socialism, and Darwinian theory can be traced to his career as a Junior Assistant at the British Museum, and his perception of the burden of having to earn a living outside of art. Making use of extensive archival research, Jordan Kistler demonstrates that far from being merely a minor poet, Oa Shaughnessy was at the...
Arthur Oa Shaughnessya s career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, prov...
