The color of time : women in history 1850-1960

The color of time Women in history 1850-1960

Dan Jones, 1981-

Book - 2022

"Bestselling historian Dan Jones and the brilliant artist Marina Amaral have combined their talents to create a illuminating visual history of women around the world. Dan Jones and Marina Amaral, the acclaimed team behind The Color of Time, combine their talents again to explore the many roles--domestic, social, cultural and professional--played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina Amaral's colorized images and Dan Jones's words, this survey features women both celebrated and ordinary, whether in the home or the science lab, protesting on the streets or performing on stage, fighting in the trenches or exploring the wild. This vivid and unique history brings to life and full color the... female experience in a century of extraordinary change. Each chapter will be introduced by a woman who works in that field today and the book includes photographs of Queen Victoria, Edith Cavell, Josephine Baker, Mildred Burke, Eva Peron, Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Clara Schumann, Martha Gellhorn, Simone de Beauvoir, Agatha Christie, Frida Kahlo, Emmeline Pankhurst, Harriet Tubman, Florence Nightingale, Hattie McDaniel and Gertrude Bell; as well as revolutionaries from China to Cuba, Geishas in Japan, protesters on the Salt March, teachers and pilots, nurses and soldiers. In combination of vivid pictures and stirring prose, The Color of Time: Women in History, brings history to life from the vantage point of women who lived it."--

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Subjects
Women > History > 19th century > Pictorial works.
Women > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
Women > Biography.
Biographies.
Illustrated works.
Genres
Biographies
Illustrated works
Published
New York : Pegasus Books, Ltd 2022.
Language
English
Main Author
Dan Jones, 1981- (author)
Other Authors
Marina Amaral, 1994- (author)
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
448 pages : photographs ; 26 cm
ISBN
9781639362851
  • Introduction
  • 1. Women at Play
  • 2. Women in School
  • 3. Women at the Wheel
  • 4. Women at War
  • 5. Women in Charge
  • 6. Women in the Arts
  • 7. Women in the Streets
  • 8. Women on Stage
  • 9. Women in the Wild
  • 10. Women on the Shop Floor
  • 11. Women in White Coats
  • 12. Appendix
  • Index
Review by Kirkus Book Review

A rousing celebration of women's achievements. British historian, journalist, and TV presenter Jones teams up with Brazilian artist Amaral to create a brisk, vibrantly illustrated panorama of women during a century of profound change. Each chapter features women from around the world who have made significant contributions in areas such as sports (including boxing, fencing, marathon dancing, and chess), education, the arts, entertainment, science, research, activism, and business. Some are unquestionably famous--Marilyn Monroe, Queen Victoria, Josephine Baker, Amelia Earhart, Margaret Mead--but readers are likely to find many new discoveries. There's 1950s tennis star Althea Gibson, the first Black woman to win a Grand Slam title; pioneering balloonist Marie Marvingt, who also happened to be a mountain climber and adventurer; trapeze artist Maud Wagner, known as "The Tattooed Lady"; and Vesta Tilley, an acclaimed entertainer who, in the 1890s, was "the highest-earning woman in Britain: a singing, dancing, cross-dressing phenomenon whose songs were familiar to an entire generation." Women were on the move as pilots and taxi, bus, and train drivers; they founded their own businesses (Coco Chanel, Helena Rubinstein, and German toy maker Käthe Kruse, among many others). Mary Baker Eddy created a religion, Christian Science. In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker overcame Jim Crow laws to become the founding president of the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia. Women also fought against Fascists in the Italian resistance, served in guerrilla militias in Vietnam, and joined Mao's People's Liberation Army. Martha Gellhorn and Nellie Bly were pathbreaking journalists. Some women were queens (Isabella II of Spain, Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani); others, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Evita Peron, became powerful because of the men they married. Although the biographical sketches of each woman are brief, they are rich in detail, and Amaral's deeply saturated colorized images bring to life a prolific number of portraits, snapshots, and historical photographs. The author's capacious selection unsurprisingly omits many notable women, but the included profiles make for entertaining reading. A fresh contribution to women's history. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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