Women and the imagination of museums

Mills, Victoria (2020) Women and the imagination of museums. In: Scholl, L. (ed.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writing. Palgrave. ISBN 9783030027216.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_139-1

Abstract

This entry demonstrates how women writers imagined a range of museum and gallery spaces. The museum is variously depicted as a frightening and incomprehensible place, a bastion of progress, a utopia, a lovers’ meeting point, and an enabling space to dream, learn, and teach.

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Item Type:	Book Section
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Research Centres and Institutes:	Nineteenth-Century Studies, Centre for
Depositing User:	Vicky Mills
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2020 10:38
Last Modified:	09 Aug 2023 12:49
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/41451

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