Francesca Tancini
Newcastle University, School Of English Literature Language and Linguistics, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
I am Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Newcastle University.
My research project – PiCoBoo, 19thC European Picturebooks in Colour – is hosted by the Children’s Literature Unit at Newcastle University, with a Secondment at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and in partnership with Seven Stories, the UK’s National Centre for Children’s Books.
Supervised by Prof. Matthew O. Grenby, PiCoBoo aims to assess the significance of 19thC European picturebooks, printed in colour for children, as a catalyst for major cultural and social changes.
Holding a PhD in Visual Studies, curator librarian at the University of Bologna for more than ten years, I have been researching 19thC children’s books and illustrations as an independent researcher through postdoctoral fellowships granted by universities including Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
Address: School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics
Percy Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
My research project – PiCoBoo, 19thC European Picturebooks in Colour – is hosted by the Children’s Literature Unit at Newcastle University, with a Secondment at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and in partnership with Seven Stories, the UK’s National Centre for Children’s Books.
Supervised by Prof. Matthew O. Grenby, PiCoBoo aims to assess the significance of 19thC European picturebooks, printed in colour for children, as a catalyst for major cultural and social changes.
Holding a PhD in Visual Studies, curator librarian at the University of Bologna for more than ten years, I have been researching 19thC children’s books and illustrations as an independent researcher through postdoctoral fellowships granted by universities including Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
Address: School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics
Percy Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
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This lecture explores these two editorial genres focusing on colour-printer Edmund Evans (1829-1905) and illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915). Through the proofs from Evans's files in the John Johnson Collection and rarest printed materials in the Opie and Bodleian Special Collections, it will be analysed how these cheap editorial products marked the turning point towards modern publishing.