The accomplished lady : a history of genteel pursuits c. 1660-1860 (c.2)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The accomplished lady : a history of genteel pursuits c. 1660-1860 (c.2)
Classmark: Bedford Collection C095
Creator(s): Riley, Noël
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Oblong; Latimer Trend; D & M Heritage Ltd
Publication city: [United Kingdom]
Date(s): 2017
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, 460 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741219
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019963776805181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 442-453) and index.
Introduction -- 1. A woman's lot -- 2. educating a lady -- 3. Reading and literary pursuits -- 4. Cards, indoor games and theatricals -- 5. The sporting lady -- 6. Dancing and public entertainment -- 7. Music -- 8. Embroidery -- 9. Threads and ribbons -- 10. Beadwork -- 11. Shellwork -- 12. Nature into art -- 13. Paperwork -- 14. Drawing and painting -- 15. Creativity with paints and prints -- 16. Japanning -- 17. Penwork -- 18. Silhouettes -- 19. Photography and the Victorian lady -- 20. Sculpture, carving, turning and metalwork -- 21. Toys and trifles.
"This is a study of the skills and pastimes of upper-class women and the works they produced during a 200-year period. These activities included watercolours, printmaking and embroidery, shell work, rolled and cut paper work, sand painting, wax flower modelling, painting on fabrics and china, leather work, japanning, silhouettes, photography and many other activities, some familiar and others little known. The context for these activities sets the scene: the general position of women in society and the constraints on their lives, their virtues and values, marriage, domestic life and education. This background is amplified with chapters on other aspects of women's experience, such as sport, reading, music, dancing and card-playing"--Book jacket.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C095: Contains loose insert: Compliments slip from the author, with MS inscription.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C095: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford.
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