2012

Ledbetter, Kathryn

United States

From Uncoverings 2012, Volume 33 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

Kathryn "Kitty" Ledbetter is currently a professor of English at Texas State University. She is also a quilter and a scholar of nineteenth-century literature and culture. From 2004 to 2011, she edited the quarterly scholarly journal, Victorian Periodicals Review; she is currently a board member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Dr. Ledbetter is also a co-founder of the Lone Star Quilt Study Group in central Texas and is involved in a variety of capacities, including as treasurer, webmaster, and publicity chairper­son. She co-chaired the New Braunfels (Texas) Area Quilt Guild's 2012 quilt show and will chair this event in 2014. Her book, Victorian Needlework, was published in 2012 by ABC-Clio.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncoverings volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 2012, Volume 33, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/10/.