Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition
Forfatter: Maud Howe Elliott
År: 1893
Forlag: Goupil & Co.
Sted: Paris and New York
Sider: 287
UDK: gl. 061.4(100) Chicago
Chigaco, 1893.
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IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING.
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of the needle in Great Britain, lias extended its potent influence
throughout the United States, and that the leading- schools of
needlework in this country acknowledge that they owe their
very existence to the Kensington school.
In music we are not behind. Virginia Gabriel’s songs have had
a wide and well-deserved popularity, shared by the compositions of
Elizabeth Philp. Among our younger composers, two of the most
eminent, Rosalind Ellicott and Ethel Smythe, have contributed
manuscript copies of some of their best-known works.
In commerce woman is taking every day a more prominent
place. In the old days, the only refuge for a reduced gentlewoman
was the profession of a governess or companion, but to-day we
find many women of good family who find in trade an excellent
and dignified means of self-support. Several ladies of rank, as is
very well known, have opened millinery and dressmaking estab-
lishments.
In philanthropic work Englishwomen have long been prominent,
while in literature they have maintained the high position won for
them by Maria Edgeworth, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Brown-
ing, and the Brönte sisters. Among our most popular novelists to-
day are Miss Braddon, Ouida, Rhoda Broughton, Mrs. Lynn Linton,
Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, and the late Miss Edwards,
whose fame as an archaeologist has almost eclipsed her work in
literature. Frances Power Cobb is a name worthy to close this very
imperfect survey of the women who to-day are among the leading
spirits in the fields of intellectual labor. The work of women may
be likened to the labor of the coral insects who for centuries toil
unseen and unnoticed beneath the ocean of oblivion. At last a
day comes when the winds and the waves bring their tribute of soil,
the passing birds drop the seeds of tree and flower, and of a sudden
a fair island-rises from the sea, with fruit and foliage and pleasant
streams. The navigator discovers the new land and writes it down
on his chart, and the patient toil of the untold myriads of insects is
at last rewarded.
E. Crawford.
Mrs. Crawford, the writer of this paper, exhibits one of the most striking pict-
ures in the Hall of Honor, a large water-color painting of a Roman scene, a nun
passing up a marble stairway, and looking back at a cheerful young peasant woman
leading a rosy child and carrying a funeral wreath. The colors used in this v oik
are of a new manufacture, and attention is called to the reds, which have pioved
very satisfactory.—Ed.