Wightwick Manor and the 13 (+1) Women Artists Who Shaped its Stories.

With more artworks created by professional artists in its collection than the National Gallery, London, and a collection mostly acquired by the Mander family after the house and its contents (with a healthy endowment) was given by to the National Trust in 1937. These artworks were acquired specifically, and rather uniquely at the time, to be exhibited to the public by art historian and writer Rosalie Mander and her husband Sir Geoffrey Mander in this Wolverhampton Museum and their home. As well as the delightful paintings, the collection also features watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks, embroideries, letters and books. The Manor is teeming with women's artistic and poetical genius and now also boasts a gallery space dedicated to the art of Evelyn and William De Morgan.

This talk explores the creations of women from Marie Spartali Stillman to May Morris, Elizabeth Siddal and Lucy Madox Brown and lesser-known Winifred Spencer Stanhope and…