About Andrea Geddes Poole Andrea Geddes Poole is a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and of philanthropy to the arts. She is also the author of Stewards of the Nation’s Art: Contested Cultural Authority, 1890–1939. Books by Andrea Geddes Poole Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women's Citizenship Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons by (author) Andrea Geddes Poole Stewards of the Nation's Art Contested Cultural Authority 1890-1939 by (author) Andrea Geddes Poole