Women in art
Here are entered works dealing with women as represented in art. Works on the attainments of women as artists are entered under Women artists.
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Les Peintres de la Femme (in French; Paris: E. Dentu, 1888), by Claude Vento (page images at HathiTrust)- Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical (New York and London: J. Wiley, 1848), by Mrs. Jameson
- Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co.; New York: J. C. Derby, ca. 1854), by Mrs. Jameson
- Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin company, 1900), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Woman in Sacred History: A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical and Legendary Sources, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images at MOA)
- Gli Autoritratti Femminili delle RR. Gallerie degli Uffizi in Firenze (in Italian; Rome: Alfieri and Lacroix, ca. 1911), by Bice Viallet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Lynn S. Chancer (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Women- Sir Thomas Elyot's The Defence of Good Women (Oxford, OH: Anchor Press, 1940), by Thomas Elyot, ed. by Edwin J. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Divinity of Woman: Her Superiority Over Man (third edition revised; Los Angeles: Filipino Federation of America, 1927), by Hilario Camino Moncado (page images at HathiTrust)
- Can Woman Regenerate Society? (London: John W. Parker, 1844), by Anne Richelieu Lamb Dryden (page images at Google)
- Do They Really Respect Us? and Other Essays (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1912), by Margaret Collier Graham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Epistles on Women, by Lucy Aikin (HTML at Michigan)
- An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex: In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c., In a Letter to a Lady (attributed variously to Astell or Drake; London: Printed for A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696), contrib. by Mary Astell and Judith Drake
- Female Pre-Eminence: or, The Dignity and Excellency of That Sex, Above the Male (in Latin and English, based on editions of 1529 and 1670), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, trans. by Henry Care (HTML at esotericarchives.com)
- The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers, by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland (HTML at Virginia)
- The Nature of Woman (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by J. Lionel Tayler, contrib. by William Caldwell Roscoe (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Powder-Puff: A Ladies' Breviary (New York: Duffield and Co., 1910), by Franz Blei (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World; To Which Are Added Rules for Determining the Precise Figure, the Degree of Beauty, the Habits, and the Age of Women, Notwithstanding the Aids and Disguise of Dress (Boston: T. Abbot, 1841) (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- The Sum of Feminine Achievement: A Critical and Analytical Study of Woman's Contribution to the Intellectual Progress of the World (Boston: The Stratford Company, 1917), by W. A. Newman Dorland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Woman in All Ages and in All Countries (10 volumes; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, ca. 1907-1908), contrib. by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward B. Pollard, Pierce Butler, John R. Effinger, Hugo P. Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, and John Rouse Larus (Gutenberg texts and illustrated HTML)
- Women and Other Women: Essays in Wisdom (New York: Duffield and Co., 1908), by Hildegarde Hawthorne
- Men, Women and Emotions (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Co., 1899), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences, by Stephen B. Clark (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The Future of Afghanistan (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2009), ed. by J. Alexander Thier (PDF with commentary at usip.org)
- Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co.; London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by M. E. Hume-Griffith, contrib. by A. Hume-Griffith (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East (London: Seeley and Co., 1909), by M. E. Hume-Griffith, contrib. by A. Hume-Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- God's Word to Women: One Hundred Bible Studies on Women's Place in the Divine Economy (electronic edition, 2005), by Katharine C. Bushnell (HTML with commentary at godswordtowomen.org)
- The Magna Charta of Woman (1919), by Jessie Penn-Lewis (HTML with commentary at archive.org)
- Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism (c1991), ed. by John Piper and Wayne A. Grudem (PDF at cbmw.org)
- Man and Woman in Christ: An Examination of the Roles of Men and Women in Light of Scripture and the Social Sciences, by Stephen B. Clark (frame-dependent HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The Eighteenth-Century Woman (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Olivier Bernier (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Eminent Women of the Age (page images at MOA)
- Excellent Women, by Various Writers (compilation of Religious Tract Society publications, London, late 1800s) (Gutenberg text)
- Female Biography: or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries, Alphabetically Arranged (first American edition; 3 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for Byrch and Small, 1807), by Mary Hays (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Group of Famous Women: Stories of Their Lives (Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1914), by Edith Horton (page images at Harvard)
- Historical Pictures Retouched: A Volume of Miscellanies (Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co.; London: E. . Whitfield, 1860), by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lives of Celebrated Female Sovereigns and Illustrious Women (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1870), by Mrs. Jameson, ed. by Mary E. Hewitt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lives of Celebrated Women (Boston: Bradbury, Soden and Co., 1844), by Samuel G. Goodrich
- Lives of Celebrated Women (Boston: Brown and Taggard, 1860), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lives of Girls Who Became Famous (1914), by Sarah Knowles Bolton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Queens of Society (New York: Harper and Bros., 1861), by A. T. Thomson and Philip Wharton, illust. by Charles Altamont Doyle, George Dalziel, and Edward Dalziel (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Thumb Nail Sketches of White Ribbon Women (Chicago: Woman's Temperance Publishing Association, 1895), ed. by Clara C. Chapin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- True Stories of Girl Heroines (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: Hutchinson and Co., n.d.), by Evelyn Everett-Green, illust. by E. F. Sherie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Woman's Record: or, Sketches Of All Distinguished Women, From "The Beginning" till A.D. 1850, Arranged In Four Eras; With Selections From Female Writers Of Every Age (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, illust. by Lossing & Barritt
- The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Daughters of the Cross: or, Woman's Mission, by Daniel C. Eddy
- Female Warriors: Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, From the Mythological Ages to the Present Era (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1879), by Ellen C. Clayton
- Heroines of the Crusades (Auburn and Rochester: Alden and Beardsley, 1857), by C. A. Bloss (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Memoirs of Royal Ladies (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861), by Emily Sarah Holt
- Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches, To Accompany the Picture Bearing the Same Title (Salt Lake City: Printed by J. C. Graham and Co., 1884), by Augusta Joyce Crocheron (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Romance of Biography: or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, From the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age (third edition, 2 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Mrs. Jameson
- Women of Early Christianity (Woman in All Ages and in All Countries v3; Philadelphia: G. Barrie and Sons, c1907), by Alfred Brittain and Mitchell Carroll, contrib. by Joseph Cullen Ayer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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