Women and Work...

[wolflullaby]

I am doing some reading for an essay that I am writing on the Pre-Raphaelites (an art movement starting about 1848) for my Uni course. It has a lot about feminism starting up at that time, and I've just read a great quote from Barbara Leigh Smith who published Women and Work in 1857 (I'm assuming this is a book not a magazine, they don't really say

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[stephbg]

What a *fabulous* quote!

[bunny_m]

I think I've said it before on LJ, but I am really loving reading history... and I plan to continue studying it even after the theory component of my course is complete.

Indeed. A smart person learns from their mistakes, but a wise person learns from the mistakes of others. And what better place to learn of the mistakes of others than the sweep of history, where we can apply hindsight to the words and actions of our ancestors?

*ponders*

Gods-damn, but I'm sounding pompous today. <.<;

[redbraids]

That is a great quote! I am glad that you are enjoying the reading.

[_kstar_]

I adore art history, just love it:))