Monuments and Maidens. The Allegory of the Female Form.

Re-issue. 8vo. Pp. xxiii, 417, [6]. Plus [48] pp. of pls. (100 b/w ills.), acknowledgement, foreword, abbreviations, notes, bibliography and references, index. Originally published in 1985 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Inscribed by the author to the title page.

An examination of female iconography in art, culture and myth. Warner alerts us to the ubiquity of female motifs and examines three different allegorical uses of the female form (The Statue of Liberty, Parisian statues and cartoons of Mrs Thatcher).

"Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified personages that litters western cityscapes. As her book shows, these stony ladies can be persuaded to yield surprisingly interesting answers." –Lorna Sage, Observer