ISBN:
9781108615549
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (264 pages)
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Abstract:
Reveals Queen Victoria as a ruler who captivated feminist activists - with profound consequences for nineteenth-century culture and politics.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Mad, Wicked Folly? -- 1 The Radicalism of Female Rule in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 2 "An Argument of a Very Popular Character": Queen Victoria in the Early Women's Movement, c. 1832-1876 -- 3 Rethinking the "Right to Rule" in Victorian Britain -- 4 The Anti-Suffragists' Queen -- 5 "No More Fitting Commemoration"?: Reclaiming Victoria for the Women's Movement during the Golden and Diamond Jubilees -- Conclusion: Queen Victoria versus the Suffragettes: The Politics of Queenship in Edwardian Britain -- A Note on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
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