1. The Society of Women Artists has gone by three different names during its history. It started as The Society of Female Artists, became The Society of Lady Artists in 1869, and has been known as The Society of Women Artists since 1899.Google Scholar

2. There appears to be some uncertainty about the Society’s founding date. Its first exhibition was held in 1857, and both Nunn, Pamela Gerrish, in Victorian women artists (London: The Women’s Press, 1987, p.69), and Yeldham, Charlotte, in Women artists in nineteenth-century France and England (New York: Garland, 1984, vol. 1, p.88) give the founding date as 1857. Cherry, Deborah, in Painting women: Victorian women artists (London: Routledge, 1993, p.67), states that the Society was formed in the winter of 1856-57. Katy Deepwell, whose short history of the Society is included in the book under review, does not give a founding date but only the date of the first exhibition, 1857. The Society’s letterhead, which appears in the book’s forward, gives the founding date as 1855, and the editor chose to make 1855-1996 rather than 1857-1996 the inclusive dates in the book’s title. There is no discussion in The Society of Women Artists exhibitors 1855-1996 concerning the discrepancy in founding dates.Google Scholar