Victorian Paper Art and Craft: Writers and Their Materials

by Deborah Lutz

This book shows how authors in nineteenth-century Britain used the materials of writing (and of reading, drawing, and handicraft) for inspiration and creative composition. In doing so, it reshapes the sensory history of working on and with paper. These activities were many and varied: Charlotte Bront composed poems and doodled in the margins of school books, George Eliot recorded writing ideas on her blotter, Elizabeth Barrett Browning sewed paper...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198858795
• ISBN13: 9780198858799
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"