Table of Contents

Introduction
Artists in the Family
Refuge in Work
A Faltering Romance
Joanna in Paris
Mamma's Tyranny
Leaving Home
Limbo
Sloping to Italy
Man and Wife
The Greatest Happiness on Earth
Afterwards

Reviews

Offers new insights on life in a close-knit Victorian family as well as into the painter's profession in mid-19th-century Britain.
*THE ART NEWSPAPER*

Sue Bradbury [...] has done a superb job.
*CONTEMPORARY REVIEW*

Ultimately, this is Joanna's story; with her passing, one obituarist wrote: 'English art has lost more than it knows.' Sue Bradbury, 152 years later, has finally remedied this oversight.
*THE CHURCH TIMES*

A masterful group portrait of the lives of three Pre-Raphaelite artists that serves as a slice of social history. [This] wonderful book is compulsive reading, partly, of course, because Sue Bradbury has done full justice to some terrific and important material, but mostly because of Joanna Boyce herself.
*APOLLO*

A welcome feature of the book is its many illustrations of unpublished works...For the art historian, the book contains a good deal of interest.
*THE BURLINGTON MAGAZINE*

A richly contextualised account of one of the most intriguing artistic families in mid-Victorian Britain. [...] Thanks to this book [Joanna Boyce] deserves to find a new audience as not only a painter, but also a woman of wit and determination in a world weighted against her ambitions.
*COUNTRY LIFE*

The light their correspondence shines on the more famous painters of the period is delightful. [...] Social history at its most fascinating.
*THE SPECTATOR*

An enjoyable study of people and their lives and gives some interesting insights on the difficulties a woman faced as a professional painter in the nineteenth century.
*BIBLIOBUFFET.COM*