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...
Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately...
This text gives a broad overview of women in politics in late Georgian Britain and provides a significant amount of information about electoral politics generally in the 18th century. Through examining the history of dress in the period, the personal nature of political relationships, the history of ideas and political philosophy, Sacred to Female Patriotism makes a case for the extensive power of females in the political system of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain.
This text gives a broad overview of women in politics in late Georgian Britain and provides a significant amount of information about electoral politi...
