Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848-1890

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Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848-1890 is written by Patricia Zakreski and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754651037 (ISBN 10) and 9780754651031 (ISBN 13).

Looking specifically at sewing, art, writing, and acting, Zakreski shows how these professions increasingly came to be defined as 'artistic' and thus as suitable professions for middle-class women, and argues that the supposedly degrading activity of paid work could be transformed into a refining experience for women. Rather than consigning working women to the margins of patriarchal culture, then, her study shows how representations of creative women, by authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Craik, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge, participated in and shaped new forms of mainstream culture."--BOOK JACKET.