The First Lady Wharncliffe and Her Family (1779-1856)
Author: Caroline Grosvenor
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
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Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain
Author: K. D. Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford Historical Monographs
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780198207276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of gender and power in Victorian Britain is the first book to examine the contribution made by women to the public culture of the British aristocracy in the 19th century. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it explores the roles of aristocratic women in public life, from their country estates to the salons of Westminster and the royal court. Reynolds also shows that a partnership of authority between men and women was integral to aristocratic life, thus making an important contribution to the "separate spheres" debate. Moreover, she reveals in full the crucial role that these women played at all levels of political activity--from local communities to the national electoral process. The book is both a lively portrait of women's experiences in modern Britain and a corrective to the view of the upper-class Victorian woman as a passive social butterfly.
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
Author: Rory Muir
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2024-01-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0300269609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of course, love itself, motivate her characters and continue to fascinate readers today. But what were love and marriage like in reality for ladies and gentlemen in Regency England? Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts as well as novels of the period. From the glamour of the ballroom to the pressures of careers, children, managing money, and difficult in-laws, love and marriage came in many guises: some wed happily, some dared to elope, and other relationships ended with acrimony, adultery, domestic abuse, or divorce. Muir illuminates the position of both men and women in marriage, as well as those spinsters and bachelors who chose not to marry at all. This is a richly textured account of how love and marriage felt for people at the time--revealing their unspoken assumptions, fears, pleasures, and delights.
The Countess
Author: Tim Clarke
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 1445656272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeader of society, lover of the Prince Regent and contemporary of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Frances Villiers had a reputation as a scandalous woman.
The Narratives of Caroline Norton
Author: R. Craig
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-04-13
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0230620418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Narratives of Caroline Norton situates Norton in relation to Victorian discourses of gender, authorship, law, and politics and studies writings, including in texts by Wollstonecraft, Tennyson, and Thackeray, Trollope.
Sisters of Fortune
Author: Jehanne Wake
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-02-28
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1451607636
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000
Author: K. Schutte
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1137327804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.
Gentlemen and Poachers
Author: Munsche
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1981-11-26
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521232845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe eighteenth-century English game laws have long been synonymous with petty tyranny. By imposing a property qualification on sportsmen, they effectively denied all but country gentlemen the right to take game or even to possess a gun. Those who challenged the gentry's monopoly were fined or imprisoned, usually after only a summary hearing by the local justice of the peace. In the early nineteenth century, it was claimed that one out of every four inmates in England's prisons was an offender against the game laws. Bitterly denounced at the time, they have continued to be condemned by historians as arbitrary, savage and unjust. This book is the first full scholarly examination of the English game laws. Based on material drawn from over two dozen archives - including judicial records, estate correspondence and personal diaries - it attempts to explain what the laws actually were, why they were passed, how they were enforced and why they were eventually repealed. The picture which emerges from this investigation challenges the conventional wisdom about the game laws in a number of important respects.
Conspiracy on Cato Street
Author: Vic Gatrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-05-12
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1108838480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the immensely dramatic but neglected story of one of the most sensational plots in British history.
