Sacred to Female Patriotism :: Gender, Class, and Politics in Late Georgian Britain.

Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately, as a literate and self-conscious group, these women created and preserved vast manuscript collections now available to historians. In Sacred to Fema...

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1. Verfasser: Lewis, Judith Schneid, 1950-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung:Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately, as a literate and self-conscious group, these women created and preserved vast manuscript collections now available to historians. In Sacred to Female Patriotism, Judith S. Lewis taps into these sources to demonstrate how the social and political worlds of Georgian Britain interacted to give women an influential voice in politics that was previously unimagined. The result is a lively, powerful, and important story that challenges many.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (266 pages)
ISBN:9780203822029
0203822021