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Marie Duval and the Technologies of Periodical Publishing
Grennan, Simon
Grennan, Simon
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2020-11-03
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The chapter will focus on
three areas of activity constituting commercial illustration: training, degrees of labour
organisation and types of employment and remuneration. It will construct a description
of Duval’s career in commercial illustration according to relationships made between
the known corpus of her published work, over a fifteen year period, and the technical
processes, personnel and locations of the print technologies utilised by her publisher
(Wright 1995). Duval appears to have lacked training in two key areas of her
profession: studio – that is, academic – training as a draughtswoman and training as
an engraver. The chapter will examine how training, and the lack of it, constituted
types of access and prohibition of access to key personnel and locations, as well as to
conventions of topic and approach, and levels of remuneration (Huneault 2002). It will
argue that these types of facility and prohibition were explicitly gendered whilst also
being established trade orthodoxies, in which proof of agreed types of technical
competency was key to accessing employment. (Flood 2013). The chapter will consider contemporaneous concepts of women’s
work in the media in the last half of the century (in Craik 1857, Starr 1899 and in the
Alexandra Magazine 1864, for example), proposing that distinctions can be made on
the basis of social class as well as gender, between women who joined or enjoined
established trades, such as wood engraving, and women generating new types of
work, alongside men, in media professions with emerging or changing identities, such
as photography and journalism (Colligan and Linley (2011).
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Grennan, S. (2020). Marie Duval and the technologies of periodical publishing. In Grennan. S., Sabin R. & Waite, J. (Eds.), Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press.
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Manchester University Press
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9781526133540