Marcella

Marcella
Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher: New York : Macmillan ; Toronto : Toronto News Company
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1894
Genre: Children's literature
ISBN:

Eleanor

Eleanor
Author: Humphrey Ward
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434450880

Mary Augusta Ward (nee Arnold; 1851-1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward. Her novels contained strong religious subject matter relevant to Victorian values. According to the "New York Times," her book "Lady Rose's Daughter" was the bestselling novel in the U.S. in 1903.

Towards the Goal

Towards the Goal
Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1917
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

Harvest

Harvest
Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1920
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature

The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature
Author: PH D Antonia Losano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9780814257364

The nineteenth century saw a marked rise both in the sheer numbers of women active in visual art professions and in the discursive concern for the woman artist in fiction, the periodical press, art history, and politics. The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature argues that Victorian women writers used the controversial figure of the woman painter to intervene in the discourse of aesthetics. These writers were able to assert their own status as artistic producers through the representation of female visual artists. Women painters posed a threat to the traditional heterosexual erotic art scenarios--a male artist and a male viewer admiring a woman or feminized art object. Antonia Losano traces an actual movement in history in which women writers struggled to rewrite the relations of gender and art to make a space for female artistic production. She examines as well the disruption female artists caused in the socioeconomic sphere. Losano offers close readings of a wide array of Victorian writers, particularly those works classified as noncanonical--by Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Margaret Oliphant, Anne Brontë, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward--and a new look at better-known novels such as Jane Eyre and Daniel Deronda, focusing on the pivotal social and aesthetic meanings of female artistic production in these texts. Each of the novels considered here is viewed as a contained, coherent, and complex aesthetic treatise that coalesces around the figure of the female painter.