The companion volume for Before
Victoria, written by co-curator Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger,
is profusely and vividly illustrated with manuscripts, hand-colored prints,
broadsides, drawings, oil paintings, notebooks, and early photographs,
as well as works of brilliant graphic satire by James Gillray, Thomas
Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and others. Mothers and wives, courtesans
and prostitutes,
actresses and artists, aristocratic gamblers and libertines, writers,
scientists,
and travelers are all represented, providing a colorful and sometimes
shocking view of the time. Published by Columbia University Press, Before
Victoria features a foreword by Lyndall Gordon and is available in
paperback ($29.50) and hard cover ($39.50) at The
Library Shop and in bookstores nationwide.
