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Styles, John; Vickery, Amanda

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Acknowledgments

John Styles (Editor), Amanda Vickery (Editor)

Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830

~THIS COLLECTION OF ESSAYS began life as one of the focused research studies undertaken between 2001 and 2006 by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior. The Centre was a collaboration among three institutions in London—the Royal College of Art, the Bedford Centre for the History of...

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John Styles (Editor), Amanda Vickery (Editor)

PublisherYale Center for British Art

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Acknowledgments

This collection of essays began life as one of the focused research studies undertaken between 2001 and 2006 by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior. The Centre was a collaboration among three institutions in London—the Royal College of Art, the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The editors are indebted for financial, organizational, and intellectual support to the AHRC, to the Centre’s Management Committee and its Academic Advisory Board, to Centre Director Jeremy Aynsley, to its Research Fellows, and to its administrators. Two of the Centre’s Research Fellows worked directly on this project. Karen Harvey played a vital role in its early planning. We hope the final outcome does justice to her insistence on the importance of men. Hannah Greig’s role has been indispensable to the whole project. She contributed not just a chapter, but her critical intelligence, her intellectual enthusiasm, her formidable organizational talents, and her command of source materials, both visual and textual. We owe her particular thanks for her incisive reading of the complete manuscript of the book.

This book is a transatlantic collaboration. Though edited in Britain, it has benefited hugely from the generosity of two great American scholarly institutions: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens and the Yale Center for British Art. The Huntington hosted the conference “Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America in the Long Eighteenth Century” in May 2004, where most of the chapters in the book were first aired. We owe a great debt to Robert C. Ritchie, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, who in his own work and in his deft leadership of research at The Huntington has consistently supported transatlantic perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and America. We would like to thank the staff of the Research Division at The Huntington for their sterling support for the conference; Wendy Bellion, Adrian Evans, Adrienne Hood, and Susan Stabile for their papers; and Shelley Bennett, Ann Bermingham, John Brewer, Kathryn Norberg, Felicity Nussbaum, and Carole Shammas for chairing, comments, and criticisms. In January 2005, the Yale Center for British Art hosted an editorial workshop where the contributors reworked the chapters. We are indebted to YCBA Director Amy Meyers and Head of Research Michael Hatt for their generosity and their infectious intellectual enthusiasm, and to the staff at the YCBA who organized the workshop. Our deliberations there benefited enormously from the presence of a number of scholars who do not appear in the book. We would like to thank Julia Marciari Alexander, Christopher Breward, Edward Cooke, Michael Hatt, Amy Meyers, Alex Nemerov, Morna O’Neill, Jules Prown, Susan Stabile, and Keith Wrightson for their contributions.

To say that a book could not have been completed without the efforts of publishers, copy editors, and designers is an authorial cliche, but in the case of this book it is emphatically true. The book would not have seen the light of day without the hard work, persistence, and patience of Julia Marciari Alexander, who superintended its publication on behalf of the Yale Center for British Art; of Anna Magliaro, who provided invaluable research help with captions and documentation; of Richard Slovak, the book’s copy editor; of Miko McGinty, its designer; and of Patricia Fidler and Kristin Swan at Yale University Press.

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