Sacred to female patriotism : gender, class, and politics in late Georgian Britain / Judith S. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Judith Schneid, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History.

Women.

Women--Political activity.

Aristocracy (Social class).

History.

Great Britain.

Upper class women--Political activity--Great Britain--History.

Upper class women.

Political participation.

Aristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain--Politics and government--18th century.

Politics and government.

Great Britain--Politics and government--19th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Missing from much of the scholarship on eighteenth-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 of our comfortable stereotypes of the past while providing us with a better understanding of eighteenth-century electoral politics in general.

Contents:

1 The Political Agronomy of the Nation 11

2 The Ruinous Genius 39

3 All Those Ties and Obligations 65

4 The Ornament of Society 95

5 No More Than Woman 127

6 Reform Thyself 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.

ISBN:

0415944112

0415944120

OCLC:

51046959