List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Foreword / Linda Peterson
Introduction
Industrious amateurism
Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft / Talia Schaffer
Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies / John Plunkett
Pertinacious industry : the keyboard étude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20 / Elizabeth Morgan
Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50 / Alice Barnaby
The artistic career
Contrary to the habits of their sex? : women drawing on wood and the careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton / Catherine Flood
The China painter : amateur celebrities and professional status at Howell and James "Royal Academy of China painting" / Anne Anderson
Creative industry : design, art education and the woman professional / Patricia Zakreski
Dorothy's career and other cautionary tales / Pamela Gerrish Nunn
The craft of self-fashioning
Negotiating fame : mid-Victorian women writers and the romantic myth of the gentlemanly reviewer / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi
Towards an iconography of ouida as a woman artist / Andrew King
"Mady's tightrope walk" : the career of Marian Huxley Collier / Valerie Sanders
Living art : Michael Field, aestheticism and dress / Ana Parejo Vadillo.