Using letter writing as the core activity of “work” for the educated and prosperous classes, art historian, curator and author Nancy Mowll Mathews will compare Austen and Cassatt’s own work lives, their long-distance communications and how they represent women working from home in their art. As appropriate for our current remote work lives and use of Zoom, she will draw comparisons with the similar stay-at-home professionalism of the 19th century.