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Books And Ephemera By And About Women For Sale: Catalogue 210
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 210 #46 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com With a lengthy Suffrage section at the beginning of the catalogue, Women in...
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One Artist –‘Mary Katherine Constance Lloyd’– Dismembered To Create Two: or...
Still Life by M.C. Lloyd (Constance Lloyd). (Private collection, courtesy of Napier Collyns) Reading Rebecca Birrell’s This Dark Country: women artists, still life and intimacy in the early 20th c, I...
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Mariana Starke: ‘A Tissue of Coincidences’: Lady Mary De Crespigny And...
11 The Beacon, Exmouth, onetime home of Mariana Starke (Photo courtesy of Sylvia Morris and Historic England) As I mentioned in my last ‘Mariana Starke’ post (The De-Ciphering of Mrs Crespigny’s...
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One Artist –‘Mary Katherine Constance Lloyd’– Dismembered To Create Two: or...
Still Life by M.C. Lloyd (Constance Lloyd). (Private collection, courtesy of Napier Collyns) Reading Rebecca Birrell’s This Dark Country: women artists, still life and intimacy in the early 20th c, I...
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Books and Ephemera By and About Women: Catalogue 211
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 211 Elizabeth Crawford elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com See #86 With a lengthy Suffrage section at the beginning of the catalogue, Women in the First World War at the...
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The Garretts And Their Circle: A Talk For International Women’s Day
For the Pascal Theatre Company I am giving a talk on 8 March: Gower Street’s ‘Enterprising Women’:transforming the home, the land, and politics, 1875-1928 The event is free and already fully booked –...
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Mariana Starke and the Demon Duke: your opinion requested
What can anyone truly know of another’s life? Was it only as the author of the leading guidebook to Europe that redoubtable Mariana Starke (1762-1838) was known to those in high places? Might her...
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Suffrage Stories: The Mystery of Nurse Pine’s Medal – Solved
Nurse Pine’s Medal ‘For Duty’ sold at auction on 26 April 2024 Very nearly 8 years ago – on 26 May 2016 – I published a post titled The Mystery of Nurse Pine’s Medal. I knew that Nurse Catherine Pine,...
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Books And Ephemera By And About Women: Catalogue 212
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 212 See item 95 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com This catalogue marks the 40th anniversary of my first, which was...
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The Garretts And Their Circle: UPDATED: Even More Annie Swynnerton Revelations
Excellent News: Millicent Garrett Fawcett has now entered Parliament. A portrait of Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Annie Swynnerton, acquired by The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art, was...
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A Talk For The Victorian Society On The Work Of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett
On 4 February I will be giving an online talk for the Victorian Society on the work of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett. I wrote at length about their business in Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their...
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Another Blue Plaque for Enterprising Women: Rhoda and Agnes Garrett Commemorated
I am delighted to report that two more of my ‘Enterprising Women’ have just been recognised with an English Heritage Blue Plaque. For the work of Rhoda and Agnes Garrett is now highlighted, this new...
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