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Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century

Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain is a co-edited collection with Patricia Zakreski. I wrote one chapter -- 'Negotiating Fame: Mid-Victorian Women Writers and the Romantic Myth of the Gentlemanly Reviewer' (pp. 187-205) -- and co-authored the introduction -- 'Introduction: Artistry and Industry – The Process of Female Professionalisation'. All the researching, editing, selection of essays and indexing for the collection (with the exception of the work that each one of the editors did for our own individual chapter) was done equally with my co-editor. The research issues for this collection rest on the way it tries to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between gender, artistic labour and creativity in the period. By bringing together some very well-known scholars of literature, painting, music, craft and the plastic arts, the volume as a whole aims to complicate conventional binary divisions such as amateur and professional, public and private, artistry and industry, and hence make a key contribution to the study of nineteenth-century gender, literature and the arts.