Portfolio Club

Beginning in 1854, BRP and Barbara Leigh Smith participated in a society called the Portfolio Club in order to exhibit and share comment on their own and other women's artistic and literary creations. Other members...

At Gateshead, ED began life-long friendships with Annie Crow (later Austin) and Jane Crow (from 1848), and Elizabeth Garrett (later Anderson), from 1854. No letters from her to Anderson survive, although a number from Anderson...

Other intimate feminist friends of AP 's adult years, in addition to Matilda Hays , were Bessie Rayner Parkes and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon . Procter was also a member of the Portfolio Society ...

In From the Antique, a dramatic lyric composed on 28 June 1854,CR 's speaker laments: It's a weary life, it is: she said:—
Doubly blank in a woman's lot:
I wish...

JI became a member of the Portfolio Society , to which Adelaide Procter , Emily Faithfull , and several other members of the Langham Place Group also belonged.

During this time they were part of a Pre-Raphaelite circle of women. Together with Bella Howitt (and Nanny, who is almost certainly Anna Mary), Bessie Rayner Parkes, and Christina Rossetti, they formed the Portfolio Club

Rossetti deeply admired this picture, which was Pre-Raphaelite in technique, showing a woman in mourning pose in sunlight, and was inspired by Goethe 's Faust. Howitt's paintings generally focused on melancholy female subjects or...

Other poems in the work include Songs of Seven, which was published on its own several years later, Persephone, written for the Portfolio Society , and Brothers, and a Sermon, which touches...