Rosa Bonheur

FPC was a friend of Emily Faithfull , Geraldine Jewsbury , and Rosa Bonheur , and she knew Josephine Butler , Augusta Webster , Lady Battersea , Emily Pfeiffer , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , Helen Taylor

ER and her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake , feted the artist Rosa Bonheur in London.

In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye , and feminist...

The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...

Most, but not all, of her subjects here have to do with French art or French literature. AB is often wonderfully funny: about the lives of Rosa Bonheur (who kept a private menagerie, dressed as...

This book's epigraph comes from Gough Whitlam , Prime Minister of Australia, speaking about the creation of a healthy artistic climate. Greer's sketch of her efforts at rediscovery—rummaging through dusty art-gallery cellars for the...