Contrary to the Habits of their Sex?
Women Drawing on Wood and the Careers of Florence and Adelaide Claxton
A chapter in Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain, Ashgate, 2013.
This essay is part of an edited collection that addresses the diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour in which women in Britain participated over the course of the nineteenth century. I focus on two sisters, Florence and Adelaide Claxton, who pioneered careers drawing for the illustrated press and who broke the mould as professional women who practiced satire.
Author: Catherine Flood
Editor: Kryriaki Hadjiafxendi
Editor: Patricia Zakreski
Editor: Kryriaki Hadjiafxendi
Editor: Patricia Zakreski
