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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 9463558, member: 1476&quot;]We refer to &quot;amateur&quot; porcelain painters here but...&nbsp; Important to remember that many of these were married gentlewomen who, because of their status and class, weren&#039;t allowed to work because of marriage bars <i>which continued in the U.S. into the 1960s.&nbsp; </i>This meant that many creative women had no professional outlet for their talents.&nbsp; The term &quot;amateur&quot; should in no way negate their (considerable) abilities.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_bar#:~:text=Lower%20class%20women%20and%20women,of%20the%20Civil%20Rights%20Act" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_bar#:~:text=Lower%20class%20women%20and%20women,of%20the%20Civil%20Rights%20Act" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_bar#:~:text=Lower class women and women,of the Civil Rights Act</a>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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