ABSTRACT
Esther Wood was a British art critic, author of Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and an early member of both the Fabian Society and the Independent Labour Party. The Home Arts and Industries Association founded in 1884 by Eglantyne Louisa Jebb as the ‘Cottage Arts Association’ changed its name in 1885. The first of the Associations’ annual exhibitions took place in July 1885 and by 1888 were large enough to take place annually in the Royal Albert Hall, until 1913. A report published in The Edinburgh Review, October 1906, used the annual exhibition to discuss the nature of the Home Arts and Industries Association’s displays. Those who have visited the exhibition of the Home Arts and Industries Association year by year will quickly recognise those features of interest which have become associated with certain class-holders and the districts they have worked.
