At the close of our 2024 Anniverary Year, this Episode in our series "The Research Group Speaks" offers a pendant or book-end for Episode 15 which opened the year by considering "Women Writers from the Medieval to Post-Modern Periods". Now the same speakers and others return to offer reflections and responses on the subject of women who contributed in one or more ways to the production of books in various forms during a range of periods across history.
Women's contributions to the "making of books" extend from the authorship of the written words to spheres ranging from calligraphy to illustrations and the designs which governed the layout and production of the works themselves.
Periods under consideration might extend widely across centuries and cultures. Examples include the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau Movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Information about the series and these Episodes
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/the-research-group-speaks-the-series/
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/episode-15-women-writers-from-the-medieval-to-post-modern-periods/
https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/episode-18-rgme-women-as-makers-of-books/
Image: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, Élisabeth Sonrel, Les Saisons. Études Décoratifs (1901): Printemps (Spring), detail. Chromolithograph. Image Public Domain via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b1-546204w/f10.item.
