Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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19 April 1791: In Paris the radical new Commune des Arts...
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19 April 1791
In Paris the radical new Commune des Arts
decreed that studying art was inimical to women's true vocation, the respectable and holy functions of wife, mother and mistress of the house.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Revolution, Representation, Equality: Gender, Genre, and Emulation in the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, 1785-93”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Revolution, Representation, Equality: Gender, Genre, and Emulation in the Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture, 1785-93”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.