Index

to

Arts and Crafts on Dartmoor in the Year Queen Victoria was Crowned

by

J. Phillips

Trans. Devon. Assoc. 1893, Vol XXV, pp.535-540.

Index prepared by Michael Steer

The paper, an interesting retrospective, was read at the Association’s July 1893 Torquay meeting. Its author asserts that his paper is based on “the narrative of Mrs Elizabeth Bidder, daughter of William and Johanna Lillicrap of Sheepstor”. During the nineteenth century, Britain witnessed an immense change in its demography. An era of modernity created new cities and suburbs, and the countryside and remote villages were consequently no longer where the majority lived. An interest in the countryside gained popularity among middle class readers (and particularly art collectors). Consequently, there was increased focus on rural subjects and narratives set in the English countryside. The displacement of the poor from view in the cities, however, engendered unrealistic and glorified depictions of life in the more remote areas like Dartmoor, and fostered a myth of “the good old days”; sometimes referred to as the ‘rural idyll’ This perspective, Mr Phillip’s paper appears to support. The article, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.