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The Suffrage Photography of Lena Connell Colleen Denney

The Suffrage Photography of Lena Connell By Colleen Denney

The Suffrage Photography of Lena Connell by Colleen Denney


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Lena Connell was one of a new breed of young professional women who took up photography at the turn of the 20th century. This book examines Connell's artistic career within the Edwardian suffrage movement, and discusses her body of portraits within the British suffrage movement's propagandistic efforts.

The Suffrage Photography of Lena Connell Summary

The Suffrage Photography of Lena Connell: Creating a Cult of Great Women Leaders in Britain, 1908-1914 by Colleen Denney

Lena Connell was one of a new breed of young professional women who took up photography at the turn of the 20th century. She ran her own studio in North London, only employed women, and made her mark on history by creating compellingly modern portraits of women in the British suffrage movement. The women that Connell captured on film are as class-inclusive a group as you could find: whether they were factory workers, schoolteachers, or aristocrats, they joined the cause to make a difference for future generations of women, if not for themselves. Connell's portraits created a new kind of visibility for these activists as hard-working, unrelenting women, whose spirits rose above injustice. This book examines Connell's artistic career within the Edwardian suffrage movement. It discusses her body of portraits within the British suffrage movement's propagandistic efforts and its goals of sophisticated, professional representations of its members. It includes all of her known portraits of suffragettes through 1914.

About Colleen Denney

Colleen Denney is a professor of art history and gender and women's in the School of Culture, Gender and Social Justice at the University of Wyoming. She teaches courses on the visual culture of women's activism and the history of women artists, among other topics.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Lena Connell, British Suffrage Photographer: Creating a Cult of Great Women
  • Chapter 1. Lena Connell's Photographic Studio, Professional Presentation, and Practice
  • Chapter 2. The Cult of Great Women: Portraying Representative Leaders and Organizers
  • Chapter 3. Theatrical and Literary Representations in the Cult of Great Women: The Women Writers' Suffrage League, the Actresses'
  • Franchise League and Other Women Workers for the Cause
  • Chapter 4. Transgressive and Transformative Acts and Resistance Narratives: Public Performances Speaking Through Studio Portraits
  • Epilogue: The Legacy of Lena Connell's Suffrage Portraits Within the Cult of Great Women
  • Appendix: Royal Photographic Society Exhibits by Miss Lena Connell
  • Chapter Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Additional information

NLS9781476681627
9781476681627
1476681627
The Suffrage Photography of Lena Connell: Creating a Cult of Great Women Leaders in Britain, 1908-1914 by Colleen Denney
New
Paperback
McFarland & Co Inc
2022-04-30
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