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Embroidering Biblical Heroines in Seventeenth-Century England
(2015)
English embroideries in the seventeenth century frequently depict biblical
narratives that feature examples of proper female behavior. Produced by young girls and
women, they were made to adorn the embroiderer’s home in ...
The Boundaries of Femininity: A Case for Two Women Artists Working in Eighteenth-century France
(2015)
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard were two of the most prominent
women artists in France during the second half of the eighteenth-century. I argue in this
thesis that in their responses to a range of ...