So wrote a ‘British Matron’, in a letter in The Times published, and published at the beginning of Alison Smith’s The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality and Art (1996). ‘A Woman’s Plea’, The Times,, quoted in Alison Smith, The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality and Art, Manchester University Press, 1996, p.1.

Is it not a crying shame that pictures are flaunted before the public from the pencil of male and female artists which must lead many visitors to the gallery to turn from them in disgust and cause only timid half glances to be cast at the paintings hanging close by, however excellent they may be, lest it should be supposed the spectator is looking at that which revolts his or her sense of decency? Ticket discounts available via Artory AppĬlaude Shepperson, illustration to Frances Rivers, ‘A Time of Roses’, The Windsor Magazine (1908), p.343. Tickets info: £6.60 / £4.50/ free to Peninsula Arts Friends Venue: Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building Were passions between women deemed appropriate only in adolescence, to be superseded by marriage, or were things rather different in reality?ĭr Hall’s talk will examine the stories of women who loved and were loved by other women in 19th-century Britain, which reveal a more varied account than the stereotypes allow. Join Dr Hall as she explores the fascinating subject of romantic friendship between women in the Victorian period.

Henry Evison, The Windsor Magazine, vol.28 (June to November 1908)p.119. Our first guest speaker is the distinguished historian of gender and sexuality, Dr Lesley Hall, Wellcome Library Research Fellow, who will be talking about Passions between Women in Victorian BritainĢ6 April 2016, 19.00 – 20.30 G. From Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper and Hammer Horror to the bustled heroines of period drama, ideas about sex and the city are never far beneath the surface of London’s panorama on screen. Join Dr Jenny Graham, of PUNCS, to look, through film and with guest speakers, at the lives of men and women in the period. From the first motion pictures onwards, the Victorian city has captured the imagination of filmmakers and audiences alike.

William Etty by Sarah Burnage