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"Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the author finds covert revolutionaries in four female practioners of a strategy she calls creative negativity. She opens up for inspection the lives and creative endeavors of poet-photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), novelist-essayist Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919), activist-spiritual leader Annie Besant (1847-1933), and actress-writer Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952).". "As she explores the interacting elements of creative negativity that their work exemplifies, the author demonstrates how the artistic and performative…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2001Stanford University Press · 304 pages · 9780804738293
Women artistsPsychologyBiographyCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)FeminismHistory