Amy Levy's lat C19th photo-#feminist (?) novel, The Romance of a Shop (1888/2021) offers a story of the struggle of #women to stay independent in Victorian #London. While perhaps this has a touch of Zola in its telling, the four sisters' #photography business, an interesting plot element, sadly gets subsumed into the more general social tale of courtship in the middle-classes. Its a breezy, short read but ultimatley disappoints a little @bookstodon
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Hilary Fraser's study Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking like a Woman (2014), is a great bit of #feminist recovery. Fraser explores how #women in C19th wrote about #art & what it tells us about female creativity 150 years ago. While at times getting slightly bogged down in the detail, overall this is a compelling work of #arthistory that (re)establishes forgotten female voices talking about art & artists
#CfP for the #panel "(Re)reading #feminist speculative #fiction post-Roe v. Wade", which will take place at the Northeast Modern Languages Association (#NeMLA#northeastMLA) convention in Boston on March 7-10, 2024.