Janet Ashbee
Subtitle: love, marriage, and the arts & crafts movement
By: Felicity Ashbee ; with an introduction by Alan Crawford.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Ashbee, Janet E; Ashbee, C. R. -- 1863-1942 -- Family; Artists' spouses -- England -- Biography; Arts and crafts movement -- England
Genres: Biography
Description: "This biography chronicles one woman's valiant life in a vanished era of emerging feminism and bold socialist thought." "C. R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key figure in the British Arts and Crafts movement around 1900. Regarded as heir to William Morris in political belief and design reform, Ashbee (and his Guild of Handicraft) gained international fame in his own time and remains a legend today. Although much has been written about him, to date there has been no full study of his remarkable wife.".

"This book reveals Janet Ashbee as a gifted woman of emotional warmth, strength, and unconventionality, qualities that enhanced her husband's work. But meeting the challenge of making a fruitful relationship and a practical marriage with C. R. Ashbee - predicated upon acceptance of his acknowledged and well-known homosexuality - represents one of the central themes of the book."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Daughter at home; title: Comrade wife; title: The house with the copper door; title: The lady of the guild; title: American blossoming; title: The last of London; title: Whitechapel to Camelot; title: The first shadows; title: The bulging red book; title: Amputation; title: Hope fulfilled; title: Family and war; title: Campden to Jerusaleum via Cairo; title: The golden bowl filled with scorpions; title: Once in Royal Davids City; title: Administration wife; title: Two houses; title: If I forget thee, o Jerusalem; title: Reshuffling the pack; title: Doves escaping; title: Wife to widow; title: Comrade-grandmother.