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Acknowledgments

Joy S. Kasson

Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture

Like everyone who attempts to be a scholar and a parent at the same time, I am especially grateful for the gift of time. During most of the decade I worked on this book, I relied on the devoted childcare provided by Mrs. Charlotte Regester. I would like to thank the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the support provided by a Pogue Leave in...

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Acknowledgments

Like everyone who attempts to be a scholar and a parent at the same time, I am especially grateful for the gift of time. During most of the decade I worked on this book, I relied on the devoted childcare provided by Mrs. Charlotte Regester. I would like to thank the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the support provided by a Pogue Leave in the fall of 1982. The final stages of research and writing were made possible by a year-long fellowship at the Humanities Institute at the University of California at Davis in 1987–88.

My research was expedited by the competent and friendly assistance of staff members at a number of libraries, including the Boston Athenaeum, the Boston Public Library, the Harvard Theatre Collection, the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, Yale University Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Chicago Historical Society, the Watertown Public Library, the Index of American Sculpture, and the Archives of American Art. To the interlibrary loan staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of California at Davis, I owe a debt of gratitude for retrieving many rare books and pamphlets. Staff members at the Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, offered much valuable assistance. For answering my queries and providing me with helpful suggestions, I would like to thank William Gerdts, Barbara Groseclose, Robert Rosenblum, and Megan Marshall.

Most of the photographs of nineteenth-century periodicals and books were taken by the Photographic Services, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I thank the meticulous and helpful staff there. A few were provided by Illustration Services at the University of California at Davis, and I gratefully acknowledge their contribution. The task of obtaining photographs and permissions from museums was made much easier thanks to a generous grant from the Fund for the Support of Publications and Artistic Performances, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Study photographs and preliminary research travel were supported by the University Research Council, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Numerous friends have patiently read and commented on various drafts of parts of this book over the years, and to all of them I wish to express my sincere appreciation. Commentators I found especially helpful include Rosa Maria Bosinelli, Wanda Corn, Kay Flavell, Vivien Green Fryd, Elliot Gilbert, T. Walter Herbert, Iris Hill, Mary Kelley, David Lubin, Diane McLeod, Roberta Rubenstein, Shirley Samuels, Donald Scott, and Mary Sheriff. Peter Filene provided a thorough and helpful reading of the entire manuscript. Any errors and infelicities in which I nonetheless persist must be entirely my own fault.

I should also like to thank the research assistants who have helped me from time to time, especially Anita Washam and Steve Rosensweig. Unfailingly cheerful secretarial support was provided by Debbie Simmons in Chapel Hill and by Judy Lehman and Ann Chamberlain in Davis.

I would like to include a special word of thanks to Jules Prown, who first taught me how to look at art objects and how to ask questions about their cultural significance.

As always, my best critic and reader, most enthusiastic supporter and thoughtful commentator, is my husband, John Kasson.

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