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All week we've been highlighting women artists from our collection, and today we're focusing on one of our most fascinating artists: Lorina Bulwer, a 19thC resident of the Great Yarmouth workhouse 'lunatic' ward. THREAD 🧵 #WomensHistoryMonth 
During Lorina’s time at the workhouse she created a series of embroidered letters, made by creating a patchwork of fabric which she stitched her text on to. We call them samplers because they are similar to the needlework samplers made to teach embroidery to young girls.
On these samplers Lorina mainly stitches words, all in capital letters with no punctuation. They read as a constant stream of thought, sometimes angry, sometimes funny. They provide us with an insight into her mind as well as the world of the workhouse.
