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Cassandra Brydges, Duchess of Chandos, 1670-1735

Author : Cassandra Willoughby Brydges Duchess of Chandos
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843833420
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Cassandra Brydges, Duchess of Chandos, 1670-1735 written by Cassandra Willoughby Brydges Duchess of Chandos and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra Brydges, née Willoughby (1670-1735), was a remarkable woman; through her marriage at the age of 43 to the immensely wealthy and influential James Brydges (later the first duke of Chandos), she was connected to many of the most important members of society at the time. Unusually for the period, much of her writing survives, including an extensive collection of correspondence, and it is therefore possible to gain a richer picture of her life. This book presents all the known extant letters of the duchess. They reveal a woman engaged in a very wide range of activities - from managing family and the family fortunes, investing on the stock market, socialising with a wide range of important and influential people, to matchmaking, expressing views on social conduct, painting, and researching family history. They are accompanied by an introduction, providing an overview of her life, and full notes. Professor ROSEMARY O'DAY teaches in the Department of History at the Open University.

An Account of an Elizabethan Family

Author : Cassandra Willoughby Brydges Duchess of Chandos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492517
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book An Account of an Elizabethan Family written by Cassandra Willoughby Brydges Duchess of Chandos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an invaluable portrait of family, kinship, regional and national dynamics in the Tudor and early Stuart period. Based on letters and papers that Cassandra Willoughby found in the family library, her Account focuses on the women of the family, and offers insight into sixteenth-century family dynamics, gentry culture and court connections.

Hidden Patrons

Author : Amy Boyington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350358649
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Patrons written by Amy Boyington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon elaborate architectural schemes. Hidden Patrons dismantles this myth - revealing instead that women were at the heart of the architectural patronage of the day, exerting far more influence and agency than has previously been recognised. Architectural drawing and design, discourse, and patronage were interests shared by many women in the eighteenth century. Far from being the preserve of elite men, architecture was a passion shared by both sexes, intellectually and practically, as long as they possessed sufficient wealth and autonomy. In an accessible, readable account, Hidden Patrons uncovers the role of women as important patrons and designers of architecture and interiors in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Exploring country houses, Georgian townhouses, villas, estates, and gardens, it analyses female patronage from across the architectural spectrum, and examines the work of a range of pioneering women from grand duchesses to businesswomen to lowly courtesans. Re-examining well-known Georgian masterpieces alongside lesser-known architectural gems, Hidden Patrons unearths unseen archival material to provide a fascinating new view of the role of women in the architecture of the Georgian era.

British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807

Author : Michael Talbot
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783272023
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book British-Ottoman Relations, 1661-1807 written by Michael Talbot and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly sourced account of diplomatic practice in the British mission to Istanbul from 1661 to 1807.

History of Universities XXXV / 1

Author : Robin Darwall-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192693085
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis History of Universities XXXV / 1 by : Robin Darwall-Smith

Download or read book History of Universities XXXV / 1 written by Robin Darwall-Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special edition of History of Universities, Volume XXXV/1, studies and reappraises the often ignored history of eighteenth-century Oxford, caught as it is between the upheavals of the Stuart century and the reformation of the Victorian era.

Married Women and the Law

Author : Tim Stretton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773590145
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Married Women and the Law written by Tim Stretton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In England and its colonies, generations of judges, legislators, and husbands invoked coverture to limit married women's rights and property, but there was no monolithic concept of coverture and their justifications shifted to fit changing times: Were husband and wife lord and subject? Master and servant? Guardian and ward? Or one person at law? The essays in Married Women and the Law offer new insights into the legal effects of marriage for women from medieval to modern times. Focusing on the years prior to the passage of the Divorce Acts and Married Women's Property Acts in the late nineteenth century, contributors examine a variety of jurisdictions in the common law world, from civil courts to ecclesiastical and criminal courts. By bringing together studies of several common law jurisdictions over a span of centuries, they show how similar legal rules persisted and developed in different environments. This volume reveals not only legal changes and the women who creatively used or subverted coverture, but also astonishing continuities. Accessibly written and coherently presented, Married Women and the Law is an important look at the persistence of one of the longest lived ideas in British legal history. Contributors include Sara M. Butler (Loyola), Marisha Caswell (Queen’s), Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), Angela Fernandez (Toronto), Margaret Hunt (Amherst), Kim Kippen (Toronto), Natasha Korda (Wesleyan), Lindsay Moore (Boston), Barbara J. Todd (Toronto), and Danaya C. Wright (Florida).

The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600–2010

Author : Ms Julia Skelly
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409442373
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600–2010 written by Ms Julia Skelly and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the idea of excess has often been used to degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a range of material - including ceramics, paintings, caricatures, interior design and theatrical performances - in various global contexts. Each case study sheds new light on how excess has been perceived and constructed, revealing how beliefs about excess have changed over time.

"The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600?010 "

Author : Julia Skelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351539744
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "The Uses of Excess in Visual and Material Culture, 1600?010 " written by Julia Skelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directing unprecedented attention to how the idea of ?excess? has been used by both producers and consumers of visual and material culture, this collection examines the discursive construction of excess in relation to art, material goods and people in various global contexts. The contributors illuminate how excess has been perceived, quantified and constructed, revealing in the process how beliefs about excess have changed over time and how they have remained consistent. The collection as a whole underscores the fact that the concept of excess must always be considered critically, whether in scholarship or in lived experience. Although the idea of excess has often been used to shame and degrade, many of the essays in this collection demonstrate how it has also been used as a strategy for self-fashioning, transgression and empowerment, particularly by women and queer subjects. This volume examines a range of material, including diamonds, ceramics, paintings, dollhouses, caricatures, interior design and theatrical performances. Each case study sheds new light on how excess was used in a specific cultural context, including canonical sites of study such as the Netherlands in the eighteenth century, Victorian Britain and Paris in the 1920s, and under-studied contexts such as Canada and Sweden.

John Theophilus Desaguliers

Author : Audrey T. Carpenter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441173471
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book John Theophilus Desaguliers written by Audrey T. Carpenter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistant to Sir Isaac Newton and later elucidated the difficult concepts of Newtonian physics in private lectures. He was a member of the Royal Society, and was presented with the Society's highest honour, the Copley Medal, no less than three times. He was a pioneering engineer: the water supply of Edinburgh, the ventilation of the Houses of Parliament and the first Westminster Bridge all owed him a debt. In a different sphere, Desaguliers became the third Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the Freemasons which was founded in 1717. He is remembered worldwide for his seminal influence during those early days of Freemasonry. He also wrote poetry and had an influential circle of patrons, including George I and Frederick, Prince of Wales (whom he initiated as a Mason at a specially convened lodge at Kew). This biography, based on original research, describes a charismatic character who was a major figure of his age.

Family Life in Britain, 1650–1910

Author : Carol Beardmore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030048551
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Family Life in Britain, 1650–1910 written by Carol Beardmore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The chapters build upon the argument, developed in the 1990s and 2000s, that the nuclear family form, the bedrock of understandings of the structure and function of family and kinship units, provides a wholly inadequate lens through which to view the British family. Instead the volume's contributors point to families and households with porous boundaries, an endless capacity to reconstitute themselves, and an essential fluidity to both the form of families, and the family and kinship relationships that stood in the background. This book offers a re-reading, and reconsideration of the existing pillars of family history in Britain. It examines areas such as: Scottish kinship patterns, work patterns of kin in Post Office families, stepfamily relations, the role of family in managing lunatic patients, and the fluidity associated with a range of professional families in the nineteenth century. Chapter 8 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000

Author : K. Schutte
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137327804
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000 written by K. Schutte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.

Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745

Author : Rachel Wilson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 178327039X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Book Synopsis Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745 by : Rachel Wilson

Download or read book Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745 written by Rachel Wilson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was a period of great social and political change within Ireland, as the Protestant Ascendancy gained control of the country, aided by the English government and aristocracy, withwhom the ruling class in Ireland mixed through marriage and travel. The resulting Anglo-Irish elite, with its distinct transnational identity, differed markedly from the preceding Irish elite, but, at the same time, because of itsIrish dimension, was very different also from the contemporary English and Scottish upper classes. Women played key roles in this Anglo-Irish elite, and the nature of the Protestant Ascendancy can only be completely understood byconsidering women's roles fully. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of women in Ascendancy Ireland. It discusses marriage, family and social life; explores women's roles in economic and political life and in charitable activities; and places Irish elite women of this period in their wider historiographical context. The book is based on extensive original research, including among the papers of aristocratic families in Ireland and Britain, and provides a wealth of detail on elite women's lives in this period. Rachel Wilson completed her doctorate in modern history at Queen's University, Belfast.

Maids, Wives, Widows

Author : Sara Read
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473859581
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Maids, Wives, Widows written by Sara Read and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad-ranging exploration of the everyday lives of women—from social calls to medical needs—during one of English history’s most fascinating periods. Maids, wives, and widows were the official classifications of women according to English law in the early modern era, immediately following the medieval period. In this fascinating study of the time, historian Sara Read shows “how varied, rich, joyous, and sociable early modern women’s lives were, not to mention just how busy or difficult they could be” (Read, from the introduction). Read delves into how these women filled their days, including vivid details of what they liked to eat and drink, what jobs they held, and how they raised their children. With chapters devoted to beauty regimes, fashion, and literature, the book examines the cultural and domestic aspects of life, as well as how women understood and dealt with their monthly periods and what it was like to give birth in a time before modern obstetric care was available. Maids, Wives, Widows also highlights key moments in women’s history such as the 1671 publication of the first midwifery guide by Jane Sharp; the turmoil caused by the Civil Wars of the 1640s; the various new religious sects in which women participated to a surprising extent; and many others. Also scrutinized are cases of notorious criminals such as murderer Sarah Malcolm and confidence trickster Mary Toft who pretended to give birth to rabbits.

The Opened Letter

Author : Lindsay O'Neill
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812246489
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Opened Letter written by Lindsay O'Neill and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain. As colonial possessions and populations grew and more individuals moved around the globe, Britons both at home and abroad required a constant and reliable means of communication to conduct business, plumb intellectual concerns, discuss family matters, run distant estates, and exchange news. As face-to-face communication became more intermittent, men and women across the early modern British world relied on letters. In The Opened Letter, historian Lindsay O'Neill explores the importance and impact of networking via letter-writing among the members of the elite from England, Ireland, and the colonies. Combining extensive archival research with social network digital technology, The Opened Letter captures the dynamic associations that created a vibrant, expansive, and elaborate web of communication. The author examined more than 10,000 letters produced by such figures as Virginia planters William Byrd I and his son William Byrd II; the Anglo-Irish nobleman John Perceval; the newly minted Duke of Chandos, James Brydges, and his wife Cassandra Brydges; and Sir Hans Sloane, the president of the Royal Society, and his colleague Peter Collinson. She also mined letters from the likes of Nicholas Blundell, a Catholic member of the Lancashire gentry, and James Eliot, a London merchant and ardent Quaker. The Opened Letter reassembles and presents the vital individual and interlocking epistolary webs constructed by disparate groups of letter writers. These early social networks illuminate the structural, social, and geographic workings of the British world as the nation was becoming a dominant global power.

The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon

Author : Lady Anne Cooke Bacon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107056543
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Lady Anne Bacon written by Lady Anne Cooke Bacon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters of Lady Anne Bacon, mother of Francis Bacon, which shed light on Elizabethan politics from a female perspective.

Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England

Author : S. Read
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137355034
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England written by S. Read and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the body and so was extensively discussed in medical texts. Sara Read examines all forms of literature, from plays and poems, to life-writing, and compares these texts with the medical theories.

Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies

Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317886305
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies written by Rosemary O'Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies. This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic, while accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages, contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives. Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage, but also upon the partnership between men and women. It also looks at the varied roles – cultural, religious and educational – that women played both inside and outside marriage during the key period 1500-1760. Women emerge as partners, patrons, matchmakers, investors and network builders.