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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed copy. Florence Carlyle was one of the prominent women artists in Canada throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during a period that saw the emergence of a significant number of professionally trained women artists. She was elected an Associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1897, in status identical to other exceptional women painters between the date of the founding of the Academy in 1880 and 1933 (except for charter member Charlotte Schreiber, who was given full membership). In 1899 in The Globe (Toronto), Mary Dignam, who founded the Women's Art Association of Canada, wrote about Carlyle as one of th.…