A W N Pugin and Women by Rosemary Hill (RECORDING)

This is a recording of the talk: 'A W N Pugin and Women by Rosemary Hill' which was recorded on 12 February 2025.

This talk is part of the Online Winter Lecture Series 2025 called Victorian and Edwardian Women in Architecture. Follow this link to book all of the lectures.

Organised by Lynne Walker

The spring lecture series provides the opportunity to engage with recent, path-breaking research by leading experts which gives a fresh perspective on women’s diverse roles in nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture as designers, patrons, clients, philanthropists, and businesswomen, as well as their emergence as professional architects by 1900. In the broad context of Victorian society, this series considers themes and issues which both facilitated and limited women’s agency and contribution in a male-dominated world, most notably, family, social and political networks, widowhood and wealth.

‘Girls are much easier managed than boys': A.W. N. Pugin and women

by Rosemary Hill

Pugin’s biographer explores the role women played in both Pugin’s personal and professional life and in particular his relationships with his mother, Catherine Welby, and three wives, Anne Garnet, Louisa Burton and Jane Knill.

Rosemary Hill’s prize-winning biography, God’s Architect, A Life of the Gothic Revival Architect A. W. N Pugin was published in 2007. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Antiquaries, a former trustee of the Victorian Society, a trustee of the Pugin Society and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

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Image: Pugin's eldest child, Anne Pugin Powell, wearing jewellery designed by her father