Janet Ashbee: Love, Marriage, and the Arts and Crafts MovementC. R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key man in the British Arts and Crafts movement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Regarded as heir to William Morris in political belief and design reform, Ash bee (and his Guild of Handicraft) gained international fame in his own time and remains a legend today. While much has been written about him, little has been said of his wife. Now Felicity Ashbee breaks the silence in a compelling book about her mother. The book depicts Janet Ashbee as a gifted woman of emotional warmth, strength, and unconventionality, all of which enhanced her husband's work. An accomplished writer and thinker in her own right, Janet Ashbee's life revolved around great historic issues that still resonate today: the socially conscious Arts and Crafts movement, the role of women in contemporary affairs, and embattled ethnic relationships in the Middle East-not to mention marriage and sexual orientation, predicated upon her husband's vibrant and well-known homosexuality. A book of rare insight and significance, Janet Ashbee sheds welcome light on the Arts and Crafts movement and on women in oft-romanticized Victorian and Edwardian British culture. |
Contents
BEGINNINGS 18771895 | 1 |
DAUGHTER AT HOME 18951897 | 11 |
COMRADE WIFE 18971898 | 23 |
THE HOUSE WITH THE COPPER DOOR 18981900 | 34 |
THE LADY OF THE GUILD 18981900 | 45 |
AMERICAN BLOSSOMING 19001901 | 54 |
THE LAST OF LONDON 19O119O2 | 67 |
WHITECHAPEL TO CAMELOT 19O219O3 | 79 |
CAMPDEN TO JERUSALEMVIA CAIRO 19171918 | 147 |
THE GOLDEN BOWL FILLED WITH SCORPIONS 1918 | 158 |
ONCE IN ROYAL DAVIDS CITY 1919 | 167 |
ADMINISTRATION WIFE 192O1921 | 181 |
TWO HOUSES 1921 | 188 |
IF I FORGET THEE O JERUSALEM 1922 | 197 |
RESHUFFLING THE PACK 19221929 | 203 |
DOVES ESCAPING 19291939 | 216 |
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References to this book
Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-libertarian Thought and British ... David Goodway Limited preview - 2006 |