Author: Lewis Saul BenjaminPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Lady Suffolk and Her Circle
Author: Lewis Saul BenjaminPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Lady Suffolk and Her Circle
Author: Lewis MelvillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Elizabeth I and Her Circle
Author: Susan DoranPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199574952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The inside story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. It is a vivid and often dramatic account, offering a deeper insight into Elizabeth's emotional and political conduct, and challenging many popular myths about her.
Women of Quality
Author: Ingrid H. TaguePublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851159072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change. Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily lives during a period of significant cultural change. In the years followingthe Glorious Revolution, didactic writers and other social critics responded to a perceived crisis of gender relations by creating a new discourse of 'natural' feminine behavior in opposition to the luxury and decadence of fashionable women. Modern scholars have often portrayed this agenda as representing the rise of a middle-class ideology, but Ingrid Tague argues that the new rhetoric held enormous appeal for those women who would appear to be its greatest targets: wealthy, fashionable 'women of quality'. Using the correspondence and diaries of these women, Tague traces the ways in which they adopted, adapted, and exploited ideals of femininity. In their hands, feminine values could become powerful tools that enabled them to compete for status and reputation. Ironically, by identifying femininity with private, trivial concerns, these ideals created unique opportunities for elite women. Female participation in informal social and political activities placed women at the heart of aristocratic power in the early eighteenth century, even as they employed the language of wifely subordination and domesticity. Ingrid Tague is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Denver.
The Mistresses of George I & II
Author: Catherine CurzonPublisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526762730
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
When George I arrived in England he found a kingdom in turmoil. Mistrustful of the new monarch from Hanover, his subjects met his coronation with riots. At George’s side was his mistress, Melusine von der Schulenberg, whilst his ex-wife languished in prison. Known as the Maypole thanks to her eye-catching figure, Melusine was the king’s confidante for decades. She was a mother to his children and a queen without a crown. George II never forgave his father for tearing him from his mother's arms and he was determined to marry for love, not duty. Though his wife, Caroline of Ansbach, proved to be a politically gifted queen, George II turned to another for affection. She was Henrietta Howard, the impoverished Countess of Suffolk, and she was desperate to escape her brutish husband. As the years passed, the royal affair became a powerplay between king and queen and the woman who was mistress to one and servant to another. Melusine and Henrietta's privileged position made them the envy of every courtier. It also made them a target of jealousy, plotting and ambition. In the tumultuous Georgian court, the bedroom and the throne room weren't so far apart.
The Cornhill Magazine
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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The Nation and Athenæum
Author: The Nation and the Athenaeum
Author: Woman's Record, Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women
Author: Sarah Josepha Buell HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
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Biography of Distinguished Women
Author: Sarah Josepha Buell HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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