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Hace 4 días · In assessing their contribution to Enlightenment discourses of history and progress and to feminist ideas regarding women’s education and female rationality and moral agency, O’Brien examines Macaulay and Wollstonecraft’s engagement with male and female intellectuals, and with each other.
Hace 1 día · The Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century has three more chapters devoted to mid-century women’s writing, respectively by Susan Carlile on Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote (pp. 259–78), Nicole Pohl on Sarah Scott’s Millennium Hall (pp. 295–309), and Paul D. Morris on Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague (pp. 327–45).
Hace 3 días · Work in the 18th century has long been neglected by historians, who have focused instead on other aspects of economic life: notably consumption, but also on the legal structures of inheritance and marriage which shaped working lives over the life cycle.
Hace 4 días · In the nineteenth century, European literature, especially Charles Kingsley's 1853 novel Hypatia, romanticized her as "the last of the Hellenes". In the twentieth century, Hypatia became seen as an icon for women's rights and a precursor to the feminist movement.
Hace 1 día · But in a new survey of marriage and marriage breakdown in the long eighteenth century, Joanne Bailey presents a subtle and compelling method for re-evaluating court records and other materials as a means of uncovering 'the nature of married life itself'.
Hace 2 días · United Kingdom - 18th-century Britain, 1714–1815: When Georg Ludwig, elector of Hanover, became king of Great Britain on August 1, 1714, the country was in some respects bitterly divided. Fundamentally, however, it was prosperous, cohesive, and already a leading European and imperial power.
Hace 2 días · In short, Britain was not a static society, and the towns and the countryside were not entirely separate spheres. Men and women moved about to seek pleasure, to do business, to sell goods, to marry, or to find work; and their ideas and impressions shifted over time. The revolution in communications
