Alexandra K. Wettlaufer (NHC Fellow, 2007–08)
Project Title
Sisters in the Arts: Representing the Female Artist in Painting and Literature, 1830-1860
The University of Texas at Austin
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2007–08
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer substantially completed Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1830-1860, under contract with the Ohio State University Press. She wrote "Sisters in Art: Shaping Artistic Identity in Anna Mary Howitt's Fiction and Painting" for Victorian Studies, and "Hands Off: Gender, Anxiety, and Identity in the Atelier in Boilly, Mayer and Balzac" for Dix-Neuf.