Introduction – Jo Devereux
Part I: Natural history illustration, 1855–90
1 Jemima Blackburn ‘believed in nothing’: horror, religion, and animal illustration – Bethan Stevens
2 Eleanor Vere Boyle’s ‘fantaisies’ and enchanted gardens – Laurence Talairach
3 I ‘wander and wonder and paint’: the botanical illustrations of Marianne North – Nancy V. Workman
Part II: Book illustration, cartoons, and caricature, 1859–1901
4 The ABCs of Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon: new views on her manuscript, ‘An Illustrated Comic Alphabet’ – Margo L. Beggs
5 ‘A genuine talent’: Mary Ellen Edwards – Simon Cooke
6 From London Society to The British Workwoman: Edith Hume’s journey to religious domestic illustration via Katwijk and Scheveningen beaches – Deborah Canavan
7 ‘This woman who predominated in all things’: Alice Barber Stephens’s drawings of Dorothea in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, 1899 – Nancy Marck Cantwell
8 Florence and Adelaide Claxton: frames, doorways, and domestic satire – Jo Devereux
9 Marie Duval: the methods and politics of attribution – Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, and Julian Waite
Part III: Illustration at the fin de siècle, 1890–1908
10 Romance fiction, folk tales, and poetry: Amy Sawyer and the Arts and Crafts movement – Kate Holterhoff
11 Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale as a black-and-white artist – Pamela Gerrish Nunn
12 ‘The great within’: the illustrations of Jessie Marion King for Seven Happy Days – Carey Gibbons
13 Working against ‘that thunderous clamour of the steam press’: Pamela Colman Smith and the art of hand-coloured illustration – Lorraine Janzen Kooistra and Marion Tempest Grant
14 Olive Allen and the graphic nonchalance of the Modern Girl, illustrated – Jaleen Grove
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