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Lena Connell was one of a new breed of young professional women who
took up photography at the turn of the 20th century. She ran her
own studio in North London, only employed women, and made her mark
on history by creating compellingly modern portraits of women in
the British suffrage movement. The women that Connell captured on
film are as class-inclusive a group as you could find: whether they
were factory workers, schoolteachers, or aristocrats, they joined
the cause to make a difference for future generations of women, if
not for themselves. Connell's portraits created a new kind of
visibility for these activists as hard-working, unrelenting women,
whose spirits rose above injustice. This book examines Connell's
artistic career within the Edwardian suffrage movement. It
discusses her body of portraits within the British suffrage
movement's propagandistic efforts and its goals of sophisticated,
professional representations of its members. It includes all of her
known portraits of suffragettes through 1914.
Exploring the concept of portrait as memoir, Women, Portraiture and
the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England: My Lady Scandalous
Reconsidered examines the images and lives of four prominent
Victorian women who steered their way through scandal to forge
unique identities. The volume shows the effect of celebrity, and
even notoriety, on the lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Dilke,
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Sarah Grand. For these women, their
portraits were more than speaking likenesses-whether painted or
photographic, they became crucial tools the women used to negotiate
their controversial identities. Women, Portraiture and the Crisis
of Identity in Victorian England shows that the fascinating power
of celebrity - and specifically its effects on women - was as much
of a phenomenon in Victorian times as it is today. Colleen Denney
explores how these women used their portraits as tools of
persuasion, performing a domestic masquerade to secure privacy and
acceptance, or sites of resistance, tearing down male constructions
of female propriety and fighting Victorian stereotypes of
intellectual women. Questioning the classic Victorian notions of
"separate spheres," this volume celebrates women's search for self
within the constraints of the nineteenth century, as well as within
the world of present-day academia.
This book examines the domains of public space and the private,
domestic realm and the interstices between them by focusing on ways
that women enter the public arena while using the domestic politics
of the private one to propel them forward in their cause for social
justice, equality, and citizenship. The subject is unique not only
in its focus on the visual culture of first-wave feminists in
Edwardian England with a comparator analysis, where appropriate, on
feminist developments in France, but also in its attention to
women's movements into the public arena in the late 20th/21st
century more globally in the context of how they continue to honor
this first-wave suffrage history. Women's bodies were and are at
the center of every debate on women's rights worldwide. The present
study connects the hard work of women activists in the streets of
London, Paris and beyond in making their desires known.
Exploring the concept of portrait as memoir, Women, Portraiture and
the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England: My Lady Scandalous
Reconsidered examines the images and lives of four prominent
Victorian women who steered their way through scandal to forge
unique identities. The volume shows the effect of celebrity, and
even notoriety, on the lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Dilke,
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Sarah Grand. For these women, their
portraits were more than speaking likenesses-whether painted or
photographic, they became crucial tools the women used to negotiate
their controversial identities. Women, Portraiture and the Crisis
of Identity in Victorian England shows that the fascinating power
of celebrity - and specifically its effects on women - was as much
of a phenomenon in Victorian times as it is today. Colleen Denney
explores how these women used their portraits as tools of
persuasion, performing a domestic masquerade to secure privacy and
acceptance, or sites of resistance, tearing down male constructions
of female propriety and fighting Victorian stereotypes of
intellectual women. Questioning the classic Victorian notions of
"separate spheres," this volume celebrates women's search for self
within the constraints of the nineteenth century, as well as within
the world of present-day academia.
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