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Phyllis Weliver, Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). xviii + 305 pages. £75.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2019

Anja Bunzel
Anja Bunzel*
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , April 2020 , pp. 114 - 119
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9 For details on blurred boundaries between the private and public, amateurism and professionalism in the nineteenth-century salon see Aisling Kenny, ‘Blurring the Gendered Dichotomies: Issues of Gender and Creativity for the Female Lied Composer’, in Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied, 11–27.