a room of her own

A room of her own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1880-1945

Edited by Alexis Goodin

Contributions by Charlotte Gere, Pamela Gerrish Nunn, Eliza Goodpasture, Nora Høegh, Lauren Lovings-Gomez, Julia Molin, Cèlia Pardillo-Lopez, Matthew Shorten, Alice Strickland and Alison Thomas

$50.00 Hardcover

An illuminating examination of the interconnectivity of women artists and activists in Great Britain from the Victorian era through the Second World War
 
Women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945 learned to deftly negotiate private and public spaces to advance their artistic goals. This book foregrounds the homes, studios, schools, guilds, and exhibition sites that galvanized these artists, taking inspiration from Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” (1929) to consider the ways in which artists such as Vanessa Bell, Nina Hamnett, Anna Alma-Tadema, Laura Sylvia Gosse, Louise Jopling, Evelyn De Morgan, and May Morris, among others, created and promoted their art during rapidly changing times. Contributions by established and emerging scholars situate the artists within broader nineteenth- and twentieth-century political, social, and artistic contexts.

200 Pages
170 color + b-w illus.
July 2025

Published by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven

ISBN: 9780300282115