Table of Contents

Introduction
Heidi Egginton and Zoë Thomas

1. Anna Jameson and the Claims of Art Criticism in Nineteenth Century England
Benjamin Dabby

2. Women, Science and Professional Identity, c.1860-1914
Claire G. Jones

3. Brother barristers: Masculinity and the Culture of the Victorian Bar
Ren Pepitone

4. Legal Paperwork and Public Policy: Eliza Orme’s Professional Expertise in Late-Victorian Britain
Leslie Howsam

5. Marriage and Metalwork: Gender and Professional Status in Edith and Nelson Dawson’s Arts and Crafts Partnership
Zoë Thomas

6 ‘Giggling Adolescents’ to Refugees, Bullets, and Wolves: Francesca Wilson Finds a Profession
Ellen Ross

7. Women at Work in the League Secretariat
Susan Pedersen

8. Ninette de Valois and the Transformation of Early-Twentieth Century British Ballet
Laura Quinton

9. Archives, Autobiography, and the Professional Woman: The Personal Papers of Mary Agnes Hamilton
Heidi Egginton

10. Women Historians in the Twentieth Century
Laura Carter

11. Feminism, Selfhood, and Social Research: Professional Women’s Organisations in 1960s Britain
Helen McCarthy

12. The ‘Spotting a Homosexual Checklist’: Masculinity, Homosexuality, and the British Foreign Office, 1965-1970
James Southern

Afterword
Christina de Bellaigue

About the Author

Heidi Egginton is a curator of political collections at the National Library of Scotland. She has published articles in the Journal of Victorian Culture and Twentieth-Century British History. Zoë Thomas is assistant professor of nineteenth-century Britain and the wider world at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement and coeditor of Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics, and Enterprise with Miranda Garrett.