When women were admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1860; female art students gained a foothold in the most conservative art institution in England. The Royal Female College of Art; the South Kensington Schools and the Slade School of Fine Art also produced increasing numbers of women artists. Their entry into a male-dominated art world altered the perspective of other artists and the public. They came from disparate levels of societymdash;Princess Louise; the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria; studied sculpture at the National Art Training Schoolmdash;yet they all shared ambition; talent and courage. Analyzing their education and careers; this book argues that the women who attended the art schools during the 1860s and 1870smdash;including Kate Greenaway; Elizabeth Butler; Helen Allingham; Evelyn De Morgan and Henrietta Raemdash;produced work that would accommodate yet subtly challenge the orthodoxies of the fine art establishment. Without their contributions; Victorian art would be not simply the poorer but hardly recognizable to us today.
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