William Holman Hunt's 'The Awakening Conscience'
themselves as Mary Wollstonecraft would testify. It would not be until the latter half of the twentieth century that the representation of women would become more egalitarian but as we can still see today through the portrayal of women in the media and popular culture, that this advancement remains only marginal.
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23. Linda Parris, The Pre-Raphaelites, (London: Tate Gallery Publications, 1996), 121. 24. Reverend John Edgar, Female Virtue-Its Enemies and Friends, (London: Nisbet, 1841), 34. 25. Luke James Hansard A Death Blow to Evil! Opinions of the Press on Remarks on Evil, (Pamphlet, 1844), 32. 26. ibid. 27. Diana Holman Hunt, My Grandfather: His Wives and Loves, (London: Columbus Books, 1969), 113. 28. ibid. 29. Wilfred L. Guerin et al, A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 152. 30. ibid. 31. CG Jung, Four Archetypes, (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972), 135. 32. ibid. 33. Chris Brooks Signs for the Times, (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984), 138. 34. It is worthwhile to note that the copy of Humphrey's The Origins and Progress of the Art of Writing remains within close proximity of the male sitter whose dark presence is echoed in the papier mache cover. The book attempts to trace the development of writing; perhaps the inclusion of the book represents a cue to the sexual manipulation which the couples relationship offers for language may be seen as a way in which ideas and 'pictorial imitations' are manipulated to 'represents objects' and 'abstract ideas' (176). 35. (FG Stephens), William Holman Hunt and his Works, (London:Nisbet, 1860), 34. 36. ibid. 37. ibid. 38. William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Vol. I, (London: Macmillan, 1905),348. 39. ibid.
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