Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia: Designing Women and the City of Brotherly Love. (Book Review). (book review)

Nina De Angeli Walls Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia Westport, Conn.: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 208 pp. $62.50 hardback.

Nina de Angeli Walls's book should be in the library of every art education program. Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia, based on her doctoral dissertation at the University of Delaware, provides a detailed history of Moore College of Art and Design, founded in 1853 as the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. The Philadelphia school was a nineteenth century contemporary of the London Female School of Design, the ...