In the early part of the twentieth century, two extraordinarily forward-thinking Welsh women, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, amassed a collection of work by the most important names in the Realist, Naturalist, Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Fauvist movements at a time when modern art, especially French art, was largely ignored in Britain. ...
Although born and raised in France, Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was in fact from an English family and retained links with his ancestral homeland all his life. In 1874--after his participation in the first Impressionist Exhibition in Paris--Sisley enjoyed a summer break in London, where he painted lively studies of life and ...
The half-century between 1875 and 1925 witnessed an astonishing change in attitude toward maternity, sexuality, and women. By juxtaposing seven new essays focusing on aspects of British culture, MATERNAL INSTINCTS explores the extent to which debates over motherhood and sexuality permeated everyday life during the transition from the 19th century ...
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