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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the travel writings by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Her critical commentary on social and cultural concerns of the nineteenth century, such as gender and class discrimination, still resonate today.

May Alcott Nierike, Author and Advocate examines in-depth the writings on art and travel by the youngest sister of famed novelist Louisa May Alcott. Like other American women in the later nineteenth century, May was unable to receive the advanced training and exhibition opportunities in the USA that she needed to become a notable professional painter due to her gender. An additional obstacle for Alcott Nieriker was her family's insecure financ...

Brings together the struggles and achievements of forty-six notable women artists of the early modern period, as documented by their contemporaries. This title includes writings that document the lives of relatively well known women artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi and Sofonisba Anguissola, and also those who have languished in obscurity.