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This event marks the publication of Women in Print 1: design and identities which considers the roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material.

Women have often participated in design and print culture throughout history, yet their impact has typically been neglected and undervalued, or deliberately obscured from historical accounts. These talks cover, and recovers, the lives and work of women in print, emphasizing how their contributions brought positive change not only to the industries they contributed to, but also to the wider social and cultural settings of their time.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

INTRODUCTION to the series: Caroline Archer Parré, Malcolm Dick, John Hinks, Series Editors

INTRODUCTION to the volume: Artemis Alexiou, Rose Roberto, Volume editors

TALKS

Hannah Lyons (Curator at Royal Museums Greenwich, UK) Letitia Byrne (1779–1849) and the ‘Prejudice Against Employing Women as Engravers’; Dianne Roman (Retired Fine Arts and Design Professor, USA) The Olive Branch and female compositors, writers, and editors, 1836-1857; Patricia Thomas (Honorary Research Associate, Massey University, New Zealand) ‘Choice Type’ and ‘Elegant Founts’: Advertising in Elizabeth Heard’s Truro Printing Office; Erika Lederman (PhD student at De Montfort University and the V&A, UK, Cataloguer of Photographs at the V&A, UK) Examples of Art Workmanship: The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Educational Publishing Initiative and its female institutional photographer.

Q + A

Artemis Alexiou (Senior Lecturer in Design Studies & Design History, York St John University, UK) Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Texts and Paratexts: The Women’s Penny Paper/Woman’s Herald (1888-92); Angela Griffith (Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Elizabeth Corbet Yeats: Dun Emer and Cuala Presses and Irish ‘art printing’, 1903–31; Jessica Glaser (PhD student at Birmingham City University; Honorary Research Fellow, University of Wolverhampton) Beatrice Warde, May Lamberton Becker and ‘Books Across the Sea’.

Q+A

CONCLUDING REMARKS