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Book SynopsisWomen in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the thirteenth century onwards.
Women in Print I: Design and Identities demonstrates women’s multi-layered contribution to design, printing and publishing history through eleven case studies of women artists, compositors, editors, engravers, photographers, printers, publishers, scribes, stationers, typesetters, widows in business, and writers. It offers an examination of women as active participants and contributors in the many and varied aspects of design and print culture, including the production of illustrations, typefaces, periodical layouts, photographic prints and bound volumes.
Women have often participated in design and print culture throughout history, yet their impact has typically been neglected and undervalued, or deliberately obscured from historical accounts. This collection of essays covers, and recovers, the lives and work of women in print, emphasizing how their contributions brought positive change not only to the industries they contributed to, but also to the wider social and cultural settings of their time.
Table of ContentsContents: Rosa Smurra: Women’s Contribution to Manuscript Textbook Production in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Bologna – Reese Alexandra Irwin: Elizabeth Newbery, Publisher and Bookseller, 1780–1821: A Case Study from the Women’s Print History Project – Hannah Lyons: Letitia Byrne (1779–1849) and the ‘Prejudice Against Employing Women as Engravers’ – Dianne Roman: The Olive Branch and Female Compositors, Writers and Editors, 1836–57 – Patricia Thomas: ‘Choice Type’ and ‘Elegant Founts’: Advertising in Elizabeth Heard’s Truro Printing Office – Erika Lederman: Examples of Art Workmanship: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Educational Publishing Initiative and Its Female Institutional Photographer – Artemis Alexiou: Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Texts and Paratexts: The Women’s Penny Paper/ Woman’s Herald (1888–92) – Angela Griffith: Elizabeth Corbet Yeats: Dun Emer and Cuala Presses and Irish ‘Art Printing’, 1903–40 – Anil Aykan Barnbrook: Suffragettes: Radical Design in Action, 1903–30 – Abbey Rees-Hales: ‘The Woman Thoroughly Dominates’: Lene Schneider-Kainer (1885–1971) and Weimar Lesbian Erotica – Jessica Glaser: Beatrice Warde, May Lamberton Becker and ‘Books Across the Sea’.
