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Janet Ashbee : Love, Marriage... Felicity Ashbee signed/autogrp
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A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Located in: North Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Inscribed, Signed
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780815607311
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
ISBN-10
0815607318
ISBN-13
9780815607311
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2257762
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Janet Ashbee : Love, Marriage, and the Arts & Crafts Movement
Subject
Women, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Decorative Arts
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Design, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2002-001378
Reviews
An incisive and well-written biography that records the considerable achievements of her emboldened mother, Janet. In her first full-length book, Felicity goes beyond her scholarly articles on art history and material culture, deliberately enhancing her mother's reputation to do her story justice. The result is the only study available on her mother's life, principally because Janet remained in the shadow of her renowned husband, C.R. Ashbee, and his famous Guild of Handcraft, Inc., a commercialized version of the British Arts and Crafts Movement., An 88-year-old former teacher of art at various girls' schools, Ashbee here offers an incisive and well-written biography that records the considerable achievements of her emboldened mother, Janet. In her first full-length book, Felicity goes beyond her scholarly articles on art history and material culture, deliberately enhancing her mother's reputation to do her story justice. The result is the only study available on her mother's life, principally because Janet remained in the shadow of her renowned husband, C.R. Ashbee (CRA), and his famous Guild of Handcraft, Inc., a commercialized version of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Janet was open-minded; in 1898 she married (with reservations) a lifelong homosexual who was nearly 15 years her senior. The joy that came from four children kept the 43-year marriage together, even as Janet, called "The Lady of the Guild"-accompanied CRA at supper gatherings and conversations with his guildsmen. Janet wrote hundreds of personal and domestic letters, easily worthy of publication, which confirm the liberalism of her early years and conservatism in motherhood. Along with her outstanding autobiography, Rachel, these letters inform Felicity's work. Recommended for biography collections, An incisive and well-written biography that records the considerable achievements of her emboldened mother, Janet. In her first full-length book, Felicity goes beyond her scholarly articles on art history and material culture, deliberately enhancing her mother's reputation to do her story justice. The result is the only study available on her mother's life, principally because Janet remained in the shadow of her renowned husband, C.R. Ashbee (CRA), and his famous Guild of Handcraft, Inc., a commercialized version of the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Janet was open-minded; in 1898 she married (with reservations) a lifelong homosexual who was nearly 15 years her senior. The joy that came from four children kept the 43-year marriage together, even as Janet, called 'The Lady of the Guild'--accompanied CRA at supper gatherings and conversations with his guildsmen. Janet wrote hundreds of personal and domestic letters, easily worthy of publication, which confirm the liberalism of her early years and conservatism in motherhood. Along with her outstanding autobiography, Rachel, these letters inform Felicity's work. Recommended for biography collections., To create this insightful account of her mother's life and relationship to Charles Robert Ashbee, a leading figure in the English Arts and Crafts Movement, Felicity Ashbee has drawn on three principal sources--her mother's unpublished autobiographical novel 'Rachel,' her parents' jointly written Ashbee Memoirs, and her own recollections. . . . Felicity Ashbee writes with great sensitivity of a marital relationship made complex by her father's avowed homosexuality, by her parents' shared commitment to the community they created, and by the strains of war, separation, and changing times. Ashbee has written an honest and moving tribute to her extraordinary mother that rescues her from the shadow of C.R. Ashbee.
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
C. 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., C.R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key man in the British Arts and Crafts movement during the early decades of the 20th century. Regarded as heir to William Morris in political belief and design reform, Ashbee (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 book about her mother., C.R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key man in the British Arts and Crafts movement during the early decades of the 20th century. While much has been written about him, little has been said of his wife. Now Felicity Ashbee breaks the silence in a book about her mother, Janet.
LC Classification Number
N6797.A76A84 2002
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- -***8 (50)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseCute dress! Thank you for sending so promptly and packaged carefully. I will watch your closet for more in the future. 😄. Diane
- r***l (264)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseAs described, fast shipping. Thank you!!
- l***2 (1100)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseseamless ebay experience!