Professor Patricia Zakreski is an Associate Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. Her books include Representing Female Artistic Labour 1848-1890: Refining Work for the Middle-Class Woman, the co-edited collection Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain, and the co-edited reader What is a Woman to Do? A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-90. Her current monograph explores the relationship between authorship and the decorative arts in the second half of the nineteenth century. She is also co-editing a multi-volume reader on Art Education in the Long Nineteenth Century.

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