Immediately after seeing the "Women Impressionists" exhibition in Dublin, I reserved a book on the subject in the library... only to realise when it arrived that I had mistakenly ordered a book on women painted by Impressionists instead - with the emphasis on the artists, most of them men.

I don't read much about art (not for lack of interest) so I did find these essays quite dense, difficult to get through, and at times the points made were not very clear to me. I did enjoy John House's Women out of Doors, as well as the final chapter by Hughes Wilhelm for all the historical notes it had, but most of the rest didn't leave a strong impression.

The paintings, however, were great, and the works of Berthe Morisot that did make it solidified my admiration for her. I do wish that the book's layout had been better thought through though so you wouldn't have to search so far for the paintings mentioned.