Margaret M. Giles (1868-1949)

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Biography

• Life and career

Works

• Hero
• The Son of Consolation
• Ulysses and Eurclea, 1895
• Medal for hospital nurses
• Virgin and Child, 1895
• Destruction of Pharoah's Hosts
• Prof. Ayrton, F. R. S., 1897
• Dr. W. H. Tilden, F. R. S., 1897
• They see the work of their own hearts", 1897
• The Tortoise Boy, stone
• "He shall give his angels charge over thee" , 1898
• Medal for the Royal Horticultural Society, 1898
• Joseph Lister, Baron Lister, 1898
• "After Nineteen Hundred Years and they Still Crucify", 1901
• Pilgrim with Scrip, 1904
• The Son of Consolation, 1905
• Mrs. Sloane, 1905
• Immortality, 1909
• Labourers in the Vineyard, 1911
• The Tortoise Boy, bronze, 1945
• William Thomson, Baron Kelvin

Discussion Questions

• Heroes and Princesses: Differing Depictions of the Ninteeenth-century Female Nude

References

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Landow, George P., "Margaret Giles's Hero and the Sublime Female Nude." Gender, Voice, and Image in Victorian Literature and Art, ed. Antony H. Harrison and Beverly Taylor. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1992 [full Victorian Web online version].

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Last modified 5 March 2007