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Parution - Picturing Women's HealthFrancesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung (eds), Picturing Women's Health, Warwick Series in the Humanities: 4c.224pp: 234x156mm: June 2014 HB 978 1 84893 424 5: £60/$99Women’s lives changed considerably over the course of the long nineteenth century. As new roles and behaviours became available to them, the ways in which they were represented also increased. The essays in this collection examine women in diverse roles; mother, socialite, celebrity, medical practitioner and patient. The wide range of commentators allows a diverse picture of women’s health in this period. Findings are discussed within the historical, medical, sociological, literary and art historical contexts of the period to make a truly interdisciplinary study.Introduction: Picturing Women’s Health – Francesca Scott, Kate Scarth and Ji Won Chung1 Sensibility and Good Health in Charlotte Smith’s Ethelinde – Joseph Morrissey2 Amazonian Fashions: Lady Delacour’s (Re)Dress in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda – Andrew McInnes3 Transforming the Body Politic: Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain – Sarah Richardson4 Stagnation of Air and Mind: Picturing Trauma and Miasma in Charlotte Brontë’sVillette– Alexandra Lewis5 The Iconography of Anorexia Nervosa in the Long Nineteenth Century – Susannah Wilson6 Kate Marsden’s Leper Project: On Sledge and Horseback with an Outcast Missionary Nurse – Tabitha Sparks7 Constructs of Female Insanity at the Fin de Siècle: The Lawn Hospital, Lincoln, 1882–1902 – Katherine Ford8 The Fitness of the Female Medical Student, 1895–1910 – Claire Brock9 Unstable Adolescence/Unstable Literature? Managing British Girls’ Health around 1900 – Hilary Marland