Keeping an Eye on 'The Washing': #laundry

How do women writers’ and artists’ domestic lives affect them–the time we have free for our creative work, the way we do it and what we include in it? I'm researching one aspect of this, the role of #laundry, or ‘the washing’, as it’s sometimes called. How does #laundry affect artists’ and writers’ lives? How does it appear in our stories and films? Please feel free to share your images and stories with me! My story: http://bit.ly/1anCGmH #longreads

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Wellywood Woman

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Marian Evans

several pieces of white paper are hanging on a line with wires in front of them

Lyrical Abstraction

San Francisco Museums

New York Art

Great Photographers

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Museum Of Fine Arts

Visual Artist

Sally Gall's 'Tell Tales', in a series described as "The Sly Eroticism of Laundry on the LIne" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/skirts-for-looking-up

an image of the inside of a flower with blue sky in the backround

Sally Gall's 'Red Poppy' https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/skirts-for-looking-up

a woman standing in the grass next to clothes on a line

One of the most beautiful washing pictures I've ever seen! From Anne Flournoy's The Louise Log webseries blog.

a man standing on the side of a road next to clothes hanging out to dry

From Fiona Lovatt in Kano: "Yards dyed in the morning, dry in a few hours. Yet to be ironed and taken to the fabric market."

several signs are lined up on the sidewalk near a fence with people walking past them

Creative Work

Cards Against Humanity

Feelings

Couldn't resist this!

two towels hanging on a clothes line next to each other with the words, mr and mrs dishtowels

Anthropologie Inspired

Blech. But still washing!! :)

several laundry lines with white sheets hanging on them in an open grassy area next to trees

A beautiful image from my mate Roberta. Many thanks to her.

clothes hanging out to dry on a line in front of some buildings with mountains in the background

Half of British households still use a tumble dryer during the summer

The rise and rise of dryers...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2718658/Decline-clothes-line-costing-families-millions-Half-British-households-use-tumble-dryer-week-warm-summer-months.html

black and white photograph of clothes hanging on telephone poles in front of building with gas pump

Henri Cartier Bresson

Jack Kerouac

Documentary Photographers

divan japonais

by Elliott Erwitt - Hoboken, New Jersey, 1954 From Elliott Erwitt - Personal Exposures.

Vintage Children Photos

Do the laundry.