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Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon, Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe, and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, cast off the rigid clothing regime of the past. Overcoming forced marriages and imprisonment during the Terror, they became the first self-made fashion celebrities. From one year to the next, the Three Graces led a rebellion against corsets, petticoats, and enormous skirts. Their flowing garments n...

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Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other much loved children's books, was also a profilic photographer and is now recognized as one of the most influential Victorian portraitists

Berthe Morisot takes her place today as a founder of Impressionism and a leader in women's history. Like her colleagues - Cassatt, Degas, Monet, and Renoir - Morisot sought to represent the experience of modern life, a project that for her entailed rethinking what it meant to be a woman in the nineteenth century. Through close attention to the artist's work and its context, Anne Higonnet shows how Morisot transformed her femininity and its vis...

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