Dressed as in a Painting

"[An] excellent study. . . . Scholarly literature on women and aestheticism is enriched by Dressed as in a Painting: Women and British Aestheticism in an Age of Reform."—Studies in English Literature

"If Aesthetic dress could stand simultaneously for sensibility and objectification, historical nostalgia and modernist reform, commodity culture and the rarefied realm of high art, Wahl demonstrates that as worn by women artists, patrons, and art viewers at the Grosvenor Gallery and beyond, it ultimately represented and enabled both cultural critique and a 'flowering of female creativity.' Dressed as in a Painting offers a vital foray into the creative acts of Victorian women."—Alison Syme, author of A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siécle Art