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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 2 días · Socialism. The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
Hace 3 días · Price: £45.00. ‘It is time to effect a revolution in female manners’ declared the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792 ‘– time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world’.
Hace 2 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 4 días · A Roman Catholic school for girls had been founded at the Bar Convent in 1686 and a boys' school was established in Ogleforth in 1796, but the only Protestant nonconformist school was that founded by the Quaker, Esther Tuke, the second wife of the founder of the Retreat, in 1785. The school closed in 1814 but was the nucleus, as it were, from ...
Hace 4 días · Framing her work as an ‘explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape’ (p. 2), McDonagh’s primary aim is to challenge the traditional perception of the Georgian period as one in which women retired into domesticity.
Hace 5 días · This thesis cuts across the life cycles of women (unmarried sisters, wives, and widows) and explores how, in differing ways, their paper trails evidence an ... material manuscripts, print culture, and the eighteenth-century country house Crowther, Katie ORCID: 0000-0002-9027-0885 (2023) Women’s paper traces: material ...
