Author: Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of JerseyPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465519343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life
Author: Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of JerseyPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465519343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life
Author: Countess of Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers JerseyPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life is an autobiography by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers. Villiers was an English noblewoman, activist, writer and hymn-writer who here relates her life in warm fashion.
Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life
Author: Countess of JerseyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 373269979X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Countess of Jersey
Fifty-one Years of Victorian Life
Author: Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers Countess of JerseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Spectator
Author: Mary, Countess of Derby, and the Politics of Victorian Britain
Author: Jennifer DaveyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191089575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Lady Mary Derby (1824-1900) occupied a pivotal position in Victorian politics, yet her activities have largely been overlooked or ignored. This volume places Mary back into the political position she occupied and offers the first dedicated account of her career. Based on extensive archival research, including hitherto neglected or lost sources, this study reconstructs the political worlds Mary inhabited. Her political landscape was dominated by the machinations and intrigues of high politics and diplomacy. As Jennifer Davey uncovers, Mary's political skill and acumen were highly valued by leading politicians of the day, including Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, and she played a significant role in many of the key events of the mid-Victorian era. This included the passing of the Second Reform Act, the formation of Disraeli's 1874 Government, the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878, and Gladstone's 1880-1885 Government. By exploring how one woman was able to exercise influence at the heart of Victorian politics, this book considers what Mary's career tells us about the nature of political life in the mid-nineteenth century. It sheds new light on the connections between informal and formal political culture, incorporating the politics of the home, letter-writing, and social relations into a consideration of the politics of Parliament and Government. It provides a rich investigation of how a woman, with few legal or constitutional rights, was able to become a significant figure in mid-Victorian political life.
The Illustrated London News
Author: Book Review Digest
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ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.
Separate Spheres
Author: Brian HarrisonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113624803X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The British feminist movement has often been studied, but so far nobody has written about its opponents. Dr Harrison argues that British feminism cannot be understood without appreciating the strength and even the contemporary plausibility of ‘the Antis’, as the opponents of women’s suffrage were called. In a fully documented approach which combines political with social history, he unravels the complex politics, medical, diplomatic and social components of the anti-suffrage mind, and clarifies the Antis’ central commitment to the idea of separate but complementary spheres for the two sexes. Dr Harrison then analyses the history of organised anti-suffragism between 1908 and 1918, and argues that anti-suffragism is important for shedding light on the Edwardian feminists. The Antis also introduce us to important Victorian and Edwardian attitudes which are often forgotten and which differ markedly from the attitudes to women which are now familiar; on the other hand, his concluding chapter – which surveys the period from 1918 to 1978 – claims that many of these attitudes, though less frequently voiced in public, still influence present-day conduct. His book, published originally in 1978, therefore makes an important contribution towards the history of the British women’s movement and towards understanding Britain in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.
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