Books

Arscott, Caroline. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008 [review by Antoine Capet]

Blakesley, Rosalind. The Arts and Crafts Movement. New ed. New York: Phaidon, 2009. [Review by Antoine Capet]

Bryant, Julius, and Susan Weber, eds. John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London. New York: Bard Graduate Centre Gallery; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. [Review of both exhibition and accompanying book, by Jacqqueline Banerjee]

Chang, Elizabeth. Britain's Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire, and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2010. [Review by Gillen D'Arcy Wood]

Cohen, Deborah. Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Cumming, Elizabeth. Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland. Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd, 2007. [Review by Antoine Capet]

David, Alison Matthews. Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress Past and Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. [Review by George P. Landow]

Davies, Philip, with Photography by Derek Kendall. London: Hidden Interiors. London: Atlantic Publishing, 2012. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire (21 October 2014 - 1 February 2015) — an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [Review by George P. Landow]

Dobraszczyk, Paul. Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain: Myth and Modernity, Excess and Enchantment. Pbk. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Euler, Laura. The Glasgow Style. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer, 2008. [Review by George P. Landow]

Fisher, Michael. "Gothic For Ever": A. W. N. Pugin, Lord Shrewsbury, and the Rebuilding of Catholic England. Reading: Spire Books, 2012. 339 pp. with many illustrations. Hardback, £49.95. ISBN 978-1-904965-36-7. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Fisher, Michael. Guarding the Pugin Flame: John Hardman Powell, 1827-1895. Downtown, Salisbury: Spire Books, 2017. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Griffin, Julia, and Andrzej Szczerski, eds. Young Poland: The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1918. London: Lund Humphries, 2020. [Review by Andrzej Diniejko]

Grute, Gillian. Heavenly Embroidery. Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, 2023. [Review by Catriona Blaker]

Hawksley, Lucinda. Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Victorian Home. London: Thames & Hudson and the National Archives, 2016. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Jones, Gregory. William Harry Rogers, Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition. Norwich: Unicorn 2023. [Review by Paul Goldman]

Kaenel, Philippe. Gustave Doré, Master of Imagination. Paris: Musée d'Orsay; Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2014. [Review by George P. Landow]

King, Edmund. Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings, 1830-1880: A Descriptive Bibliography. The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003 [Review by Thomas E. Kinsella]

MacCarthy, Fiona. Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860-1960. London: National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2014. (Hardcover edition. Yale University Press, 2014. [Review of both exhibition and catalogue by Antoine Capet]

Making Pottery Art: The Robert A. Ellison Jr Collection of French Ceramics (c. 1880-1910). Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, 2014. [Review by George P. Landow]

Neiswander, Judith A. The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008. [Review by Antoine Capet]

Nicholson, Shirley. A Victorian Household: Based on the Diaries of Marion Sambourne. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1988. [Review by John Hilary]

Shannon, Brent. The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1904 [Review: "Commodifying the Straw Man" by George P. Landow]

Thomas, Zoë. Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Waters, William (author), and Alastair Carew-Cox (photographer). Angels & Icons, Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, 1850-1870; Damozels & Deities: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, 1870-1898; and Saints & Symbols: Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass: Ford Madox Brown, John George Sowerby, William De Morgan, Walter Crane & Frederic Shields. Abbots Morton, Worcester: Seraphim Press, 2012-2021. [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Whitenight, John. A Victorian Obsession. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2013. [Review by George P. Landow]

Wilson, Helen. The Remarkable Pinwill Sisters: from "lady woodcarvers" to professionals. Plymouth, Devon: Willow Productions, 2021. [Review by Rita Wood]

Wosk, Julie. Breaking Frame: Technology, Art, and Design in the Nineteenth Century (1992). Bloomington: Authors Guild, 2013. [Review by Kelsey L. Bennett]

Exhibitions

The Art of Mourning, the Museum of Morbid Anatomy, 2014-2015 [Review by George P. Landow]

Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 21, 2014–February 1, 2015 [Review by George P. Landow]

The Delights of Neo-Decadence — a Review of “Savage Beauty” at the Victoria & Albert Museum [Review by George P. Landow]

International Arts and Crafts Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 17 March-24 July 2005 [Review by Antoine Capet]

James Henry Pullen: Inmate — Inventor — Genius, Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey, 19 June 2018 - 28 October, 2018 [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee<]

“Questions Hidden in Plain Sight, a review of Empresses of China’s Forbidden City” at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts [Reviewed by George P. Landow]

Sublime Symmetry: The Mathematics behind De Morgan's Designs, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 11 May, 2018 - 28 October, 2018 [Review by Jacqueline Banerjee]

Treasures from India: Jewels from the Al-Thani Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 28, 2014 — January 25, 2015 [Rev1ew by George P. Landow]


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