ISBN:
9780203822029
,
0203822021
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (266 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lewis S, Judith Sacred to Female Patriotism : Gender, Class, and Politics in Late Georgian Britain
DDC:
305.420941
Keywords:
Women Political activity
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History
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Great Britain
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Upper class women Political activity
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History
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Great Britain
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Aristocracy (Social class) History
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Great Britain
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Upper class women Political activity
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History
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Aristocracy (Social class) History
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Women Political activity
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History
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Women ; Political activity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Politics and government
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Aristocracy (Social class)
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History
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Great Britain Politics and government
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18th century
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Great Britain Politics and government
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19th century
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Great Britain Politics and government 19th century
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Great Britain Politics and government 18th century
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Great Britain
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately, as a literate and self-conscious group, these women created and preserved vast manuscript collections now available to historians. In Sacred to Female Patriotism, Judith S. Lewis taps into these sources to demonstrate how the social and political worlds of Georgian Britain interacted to give women an influential voice in politics that was previously unimagined. The result is a lively, powerful, and important story that challenges many
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