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Hace 1 día · In fact, she claims, they do harm not only to themselves but to the entire civilisation: these are not women who can help refine a civilisation—a popular eighteenth-century idea—but women who will destroy it.
Hace 4 días · She critiques what she sees as the orthodoxy of women's history: that during the eighteenth century women were forced into a passive, feminine role in a secluded domestic private sphere, helpless and deprived of any public place.
Hace 4 días · Many have seen the status of women in the Victorian era as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions. During this era, whose sobriquet refers to the reign of a female monarch, Queen Victoria, women did not have the right to vote, sue, or if married, own property.
Hace 4 días · The nature of diplomacy is characterised here as a world of ‘social politics’, a characterisation adopted from Elaine Chalus’ work on 18th-century aristocratic women. The examples drawn on here (the five wives of British envoys to Persia between 1815 and 1853, Frances Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry, and Senora Calderon de la ...
Hace 2 días · Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815) was one of the most famous women in the western world during the eighteenth century, and she continues to capture the public imagination today as the subject of plays, exhibitions, novels and books. So who was Emma Hamilton and why does her celebrity endure through t
Hace 5 días · In Foyster’s view, such interventions by both friends and neighbours argue against understanding the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century marriage relationship as conducted in an isolated private space. In the third and concluding phase of her argument, Foyster examines mid-nineteenth-century transitional developments.
Hace 3 días · She has published widely on gender and Irish radicalism in the late eighteenth century, including articles on women and the memory of the 1798 rebellion and Martha McTier. Her book Women, Politics, and the Irish Public Sphere in the Age of Revolution is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
