Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women played a major role in the Arts and Crafts movement, setting up and often running exhibitions, societies, art schools and small craft businesses. Some were activists and social disrupters, using their skills and talents to earn a living.

This book highlights the essential contribution of figures such as May Morris, Gertrude Jekyll and Annie Garnett, and describes the Arts and Crafts movement from the point of view of these women who worked in a wide range of disciplines: textile design, embroidery, bookbinding, illustration, painting, enamelling, stained glass, metalwork, furniture design and architecture.

The book is richly illustrated with a wide range of their work, much of it previously unpublished, including objects from the V&A's Arts and Crafts collection and masterpieces from other museums and private collections around the UK.