Women in art

Crochet 15 iconic women who changed the world with this collection of amigurumi crochet patterns. Learn more about each of the characters featured in this collection and make unique gifts to inspire and delight all generations.

Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Lois Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi, striding through the streets of Naples and...

'Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang' will introduce readers of all ages to the remarkable women of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement which began in the second half of the nineteenth century and continued through the early part of the twentieth. From models to artists, these women all contributed something pe...

Exploring the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers, 'The Subversive Stitch' explores how the separation of the craft of embroidery from other fine arts came to be a major force in the marginalisation of women's work.

Essentially a domestic biography whose main concern is the tragicomedy of manners enacted by a closely knit group of friends and lovers, 'Wives and Stunners' tells the story of Janey Morris, Georgie Burne-Jones, Lizzie Siddall, Effie Gray and less well-known, Marie Spartali, Aglaia Coronio and Ma...