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Sarah Dunant
Shopping & Plucking
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
By Jill Burke
Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits
By Holburne Museum, Bath, until 1 October
July 2022 Issue
Norma Clarke
Pioneering Paintresses
Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760–1830
By Paris A Spies-Gans
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March 2021 Issue
Norma Clarke
The Female Gaze
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience – 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits
By Jennifer Higgie
November 2019 Issue
Susan Owens
Out of the Shadows
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
By Jan Marsh, with contributions by Peter Funnell, Charlotte Gere, Pamela Gerrish Nunn & Alison Smith
October 2000 Issue
Sally Cline
Not Small or Sweet
A World of Our Own: Women as Artists
By Frances Borzello
LR
November 2017 Issue
Rachel Cohen
Stepping out of the Shadows
The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism
By Whitney Chadwick
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October 1989 Issue
Sonia Ashmore
Some Of Them Painted
Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement
By Jan Marsh & Pamela Gerrish Nunn
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February 1980 Issue
Helen Langdon
But is it Art?
The Obstacle Race
By Germaine Greer
LR
April 2003 Issue
Sarah Bradford
Renaissance Woman
Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons In Sixteenth-Century Bologna
By Caroline P Murphy
LR
December 2004 Issue
Catherine Peters
Guggum The Beautiful
Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
By Lucinda Hawkley
LR
July 2008 Issue
Frances Spalding
Back in the Frame
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, & Rodin
By Ruth Butler
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