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Date accessed: 10 May, 2024. 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 · During the long 18th century, the admission of women to Parliament as spectators was contested and debated. In the early 19th century, a compromise was reached. A limited number of women could listen to debates in the Commons – in the Ventilator, a roof space designed primarily to carry away heat and smoke from the chandelier below.
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 1 día · From the time of the Tudors to after the First World War, women artists faced all kinds of barriers when pursuing a career in the arts – systemically barred from joining art academies, criticised for their professional ambitions and pigeonholed as amateurs. Featuring some 150 works from across four centuries, this exhibition at Tate Britain ...
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 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.
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
