Introduction
Artists in the Family
Refuge in Work
A Faltering Romance
Joanna in Paris
Mamma's Tyranny
Leaving Home
Limbo
Sloping to Italy
Man and Wife
The Greatest Happiness on Earth
Afterwards
Offers new insights on life in a close-knit Victorian family as
well as into the painter's profession in mid-19th-century
Britain.
*THE ART NEWSPAPER*
Sue Bradbury [...] has done a superb job.
*CONTEMPORARY REVIEW*
Ultimately, this is Joanna's story; with her passing, one
obituarist wrote: 'English art has lost more than it knows.' Sue
Bradbury, 152 years later, has finally remedied this oversight.
*THE CHURCH TIMES*
A masterful group portrait of the lives of three Pre-Raphaelite
artists that serves as a slice of social history. [This] wonderful
book is compulsive reading, partly, of course, because Sue Bradbury
has done full justice to some terrific and important material, but
mostly because of Joanna Boyce herself.
*APOLLO*
A welcome feature of the book is its many illustrations of
unpublished works...For the art historian, the book contains a good
deal of interest.
*THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE*
A richly contextualised account of one of the most intriguing
artistic families in mid-Victorian Britain. [...] Thanks to this
book [Joanna Boyce] deserves to find a new audience as not only a
painter, but also a woman of wit and determination in a world
weighted against her ambitions.
*COUNTRY LIFE*
The light their correspondence shines on the more famous painters
of the period is delightful. [...] Social history at its most
fascinating.
*THE SPECTATOR*
An enjoyable study of people and their lives and gives some
interesting insights on the difficulties a woman faced as a
professional painter in the nineteenth century.
*BIBLIOBUFFET.COM*
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