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Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain

Author : K. D. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780198207276
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain written by K. D. Reynolds and published by Oxford Historical Monographs. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of gender and power in Victorian Britain is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy in the 19th century. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it explores the roles of aristocratic women in public life, from their country estates to the salons of Westminster and the royal court. Reynolds also shows that a partnership of authority between men and women was integral to aristocratic life, thus making an important contribution to the "separate spheres" debate. Moreover, she reveals in full the crucial role that these women played at all levels of political activity--from local communities to the national electoral process. The book is both a lively portrait of women's experiences in modern Britain and a corrective to the view of the upper-class Victorian woman as a passive social butterfly.

Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain

Author : Jennifer Davey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198786255
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain by : Jennifer Davey

Download or read book Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain written by Jennifer Davey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Mary Derby (1824-1900) occupied a pivotal position in Victorian politics, yet her activities have largely been overlooked or ignored. This volume provides a rich investigation of how a woman, with few legal or constitutional rights, was able to become a significant figure in mid-Victorian political life.

The Political Worlds of Women

Author : Sarah Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135964939
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Political Worlds of Women written by Sarah Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution that women made to British political life in the period 1800-1870 stimulates debates about gender and politics, the nature of authority and the definition of political culture. This volume examines female engagement in both traditional and unconventional political arenas, including female sociability, salons, child-rearing and education, health, consumption, religious reform and nationalism. Richardson focuses on middle-class women’s social, cultural, intellectual and political authority, as implemented by a range of public figures and lesser-known campaigners. The activists discussed and their varying political, economic and religious backgrounds will demonstrate the significance of female interventions in shaping the political culture of the period and beyond.

Understanding the Victorians

Author : Susie L. Steinbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134818254
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Victorians written by Susie L. Steinbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of this era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the critical debates taking place among historians today. Encompassing all of Great Britain and Ireland over the whole of the Victorian period, it gives prominence to social and cultural topics alongside politics and economics and emphasises class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations. This second edition is fully updated throughout, containing a new chapter on leisure in the Victorian period, the most recent historiographical research in Victorian Studies, and enhanced coverage of imperialism and working-class life. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming up to the start of World War I in 1914, Susie L. Steinbach uses thematic chapters to discuss and evaluate topics such as politics, imperialism, the economy, class, gender, the monarchy, arts and entertainment, religion, sexuality, religion, and science. There are also three chapters on space, consumption, and the law, topics rarely covered at this introductory level. With a clear introduction outlining the key themes of the period, a detailed timeline, and suggestions for further reading and relevant internet resources, this is the ideal companion for all students of the nineteenth century.

Understanding the Victorians

Author : Susie L. Steinbach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000898962
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Victorians written by Susie L. Steinbach and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of an era of dramatic change, combining broad survey with close analysis and introducing students to the critical debates on the nineteenth century taking place among historians today. The volume encompasses all of Great Britain and Ireland over the whole of the Victorian period and gives prominence to social and cultural topics alongside politics and economics and emphasizes class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations. This third edition is fully updated with new chapters on emotion and on Britain’s relationship with Europe as well as added discussions of architecture, technology, and the visual arts. Attention to the current concerns and priorities of professional historians also enables readers to engage with today’s historical debates. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming up to the start of World War I in 1914, thematic chapters explore the topics of space, politics, Europe, the empire, the economy, consumption, class, leisure, gender, the monarchy, the law, arts and entertainment, sexuality, religion, and science. With a clear introduction outlining the key themes of the period, a detailed timeline, and suggestions for further reading and relevant internet resources, this is the ideal companion for all students of the nineteenth century. Discover more from Susie by exploring our forthcoming Routledge Historical resource on British Society, edited by Susie L. Steinbach and Martin Hewitt. Find out more about our Routledge Historical resources by visiting https://www.routledgehistoricalresources.com.

Understanding the Victorians

Author : Susie Steinbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041577408X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Victorians written by Susie Steinbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of the era, combining broad surveys with close analysis, and introduces students to the critical debates taking place among historians today. Focusing not just on England but on the whole of Great Britain and Ireland it emphasises class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations. This book encompasses the whole of the Victorian period giving equal prominence to social and cultural topics alongside the politics and economics. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming right up to the start of World War I in 1914, Susie L. Steinbach uses thematic chapters to discuss and evaluate, the economy, gender, religion, the history of science and ideas, material culture and sexuality. Steinbach also provides much-needed chapters on consumption, which links consumption with production, on law, which explains the legal culture and trials of criminal and scandalous cases and on space which draws to together the most current research in Victorian studies"--Provided by publisher.

The Making of British Socialism

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173729
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Making of British Socialism written by Mark Bevir and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling look at the origins of British socialism The Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope promoting social justice, personal transformation, and radical democracy. Mark Bevir shows that British socialists responded to the dilemmas of economics and faith against a background of diverse traditions, melding new economic theories opposed to capitalism with new theologies which argued that people were bound in divine fellowship. Bevir utilizes an impressive range of sources to illuminate a number of historical questions: Why did the British Marxists follow a Tory aristocrat who dressed in a frock coat and top hat? Did the Fabians develop a new economic theory? What was the role of Christian theology and idealist philosophy in shaping socialist ideas? He explores debates about capitalism, revolution, the simple life, sexual relations, and utopian communities. He gives detailed accounts of the Marxists, Fabians, and ethical socialists, including famous authors such as William Morris and George Bernard Shaw. And he locates these socialists among a wide cast of colorful characters, including Karl Marx, Henry Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, and Oscar Wilde. By showing how socialism combined established traditions and new ideas in order to respond to the changing world of the late nineteenth century, The Making of British Socialism turns aside long-held assumptions about the origins of a major movement.

Public Lives

Author : Eleanor Gordon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300102208
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Public Lives written by Eleanor Gordon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the lives of Victorian women and their families. This publication offers insights into middle-class life in Britain from 1840 through the early years of the 20th century. Examined are women's relationships, their marriages, the ways they earned and spent their money, and their social, spiritual, and civic lives. The authors explore personal diaries (both men's and women's), correspondence, inventories, wills, census reports, and other documents from Glasgow, the second most important British city of the period.

Prostitution and Victorian Society

Author : Judith R. Walkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521270649
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Prostitution and Victorian Society written by Judith R. Walkowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-10-29 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of alliances between prostitutes and femminists and their clashes with medical authorities and police.

Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power

Author : Julia Bush
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780718500610
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power written by Julia Bush and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bush (arts and social sciences, Nene University College, Northampton) analyzes aristocratic and upper-middle-class women's involvement in imperialist associations, and investigates their relationship with male imperialist leaders and the male-dominated patriotic leagues during the early 20th century. She also looks at their work with female emigration, education, colonial hospitality, and imperial race- thinking. She concludes that personal motivation, organizational methods, and patriotic faith were embedded in a social and political context that empowered elite women in selective, gender-related ways.

Balfour's World

Author : Nancy W. Ellenberger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270373
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Balfour's World written by Nancy W. Ellenberger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of political culture in Britain in the last decades of the nineteenth century, revealing how Arthur Balfour and his circle served as a clear bridge between the Victorians and the moderns in Britain's twentieth-century political culture.

The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women

Author : Arianne Chernock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484840
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women written by Arianne Chernock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals Queen Victoria as a ruler who captivated feminist activists - with profound consequences for nineteenth-century culture and politics.

Women of Quality

Author : Ingrid H. Tague
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851159072
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Women of Quality written by Ingrid H. Tague and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change. Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years followingthe Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics responded to a perceived crisis of gender relations by creating a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior in opposition to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women. Modern scholars have often portrayed this agenda as representing the rise of a middle-class ideology, but Ingrid Tague argues that the new rhetoric held enormous appeal for those women who would appear to be its greatest targets: wealthy, fashionable 'women of quality'. Using the correspondence and diaries of these women, Tague traces the ways in which they adopted, adapted, and exploited ideals of femininity. In their hands, feminine values could become powerful tools that enabled them to compete for status and reputation. Ironically, by identifying femininity with private, trivial concerns, these ideals created unique opportunities for elite women. Female participation in informal social and political activities placed women at the heart of aristocratic power in the early eighteenth century, even as they employed the language of wifely subordination and domesticity. Ingrid Tague is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver.

The Beau Monde

Author : Hannah Greig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199659001
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Beau Monde written by Hannah Greig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in eighteenth-century London - and the colourful tales of extravagance, vanity, intrigue, and sexual indiscretion that accompanied it

Victorian Women

Author : Joan Perkin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814766255
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Women written by Joan Perkin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of a book first published in 1993 by John Murray, UK. Perkins (women's history, Northwestern U.) uses letters, memoirs, and other revealing, first-hand sources to describe the social conditions of women of all classes during the Victorian era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Victorious Century

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525557903
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Victorious Century written by David Cannadine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians. "An evocative account . . .[Cannadine] tells his own story persuasively and exceedingly well.” —The Wall Street Journal To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an astonishing and unprecedented series of changes. Cities grew vast; there were revolutions in transportation, communication, science, and work--all while a growing religious skepticism rendered the intellectual landscape increasingly unrecognizable. It was an exhilarating time, and as a result, most of the countries in the world that experienced these changes were racked by political and social unrest. Britain, however, maintained a stable polity at home, and as a result it quickly found itself in a position of global leadership. In this major new work, leading historian David Cannadine has created a bold, fascinating new interpretation of nineteenth-century Britain. Britain was a country that saw itself at the summit of the world and, by some measures, this was indeed true. It had become the largest empire in history: its political stability positioned it as the leader of the new global economy and allowed it to construct the largest navy ever built. And yet it was also a society permeated with doubt, fear, and introspection. Repeatedly, politicians and writers felt themselves to be staring into the abyss and what is seen as an era of irritating self-belief was in fact obsessed with its own fragility, whether as a great power or as a moral force. Victorious Century is a comprehensive and extraordinarily stimulating history--its author catches the relish, humor and staginess of the age, but also the dilemmas faced by Britain's citizens, ones we remain familiar with today.

Sacred to Female Patriotism

Author : Judith Lewis S
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136761616
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Sacred to Female Patriotism written by Judith Lewis S and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sou