This is the first attempt to recover the entirety of women's contribution to
British museums in the period 1850-1914. It sheds lights on women as museum
workers, donors and visitors, demonstrates that through such roles women
profoundly influenced the development of museums in the period and suggests
that museums were a key site for the development of modern gendered identities
--Back cover.
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