PLEASURES TAKEN

PERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND LOSS IN VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHS

(Duke UP, 1995)

“Under her clever, searching eye and in her greedily epicurean hands, these pictures cease to be the faded work of hidden Victorians. Mavor exults in the risks they take, in the way the images flaunt their subjects’ and their makers’ own desires”
– Marina Warner, The Times Literary Supplement