EN 3176 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nell Brinkley, Gibson Girl, Jackie Ormes
8 Nov 2016
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Work included ads, covers for musical scores, court illustration for newspapers, profiles, political cartoons, fiction, etc. Was very popular and well known in her day: the brinkley girls. Brinkley perhaps experienced the most success and broke away from the standard representation of apple-cheeked children with her creation of the independently minded. Brinkley girl, a comic strip counterpart to charles dana gibson"s gibson girl" published in life magazine in the late nineteenth century. By contrast [to the gibson girl], the. Brinkley girl was working class and headstrong; brinkley"s illustrations influenced young women to draw inspiration from and replicate this new woman characterization (whaley 33~34) Concerned with the needs of working women. Framed women"s rights as integral to american patriotism. The more serious the problem, the more nell sugar-coated her demands for justice . Suffrage movements took off in the united states in the 1840s.
