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The right to rule and the rights of women : Queen Victoria and the women's movement
Author
Title
The right to rule and the rights of women : Queen Victoria and the women's movement / Arianne Chernock, Boston University.
ISBN
9781108484848
1108484840
9781108615549
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019.
Physical Description
xi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Bracing words indeed, yet considered in isolation they actually tell us very little about how Queen Victoria figured in 19th-century conversations about women's rights in Britain. Victoria's opinions about female emancipation, after all, were initially registered in private, not public. While her opposition to women's rights would have been well known to her correspondents and a small circle of friends and associates, it was not conveyed to a broader public until decades later. The Queen's letter of 1852 to her Uncle Leopold, for example, only came to public attention in 1876, when it was included in Theodore Martin's The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort"-- Provided by publisher.
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ebook version :
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-238) and index.
Contents
Introduction: A mad wicked folly?
The radicalism of female rule in Eighteenth-Century Britain
"An argument of a very popular character" : Queen Victoria in the early women's movement, c. 1832-1876
Rethinking the "right to rule" in Victorian Britain
The Anti-Suffragists' Queen
"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.
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Genre/Form
History.
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