Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899Lynette Felber Exposes the reality behind the notion that nineteenth-century history was an exclusively male preserve. This work reveals the wealth of women's historical writings, demonstrating that Victorian domestic ideology did not prevent women from making history, featuring both as historical subjects and writers of history. |
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... Lives Mary Spongberg ALTHOUGH ROYAL LIVES WRITTEN BY WOMEN HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECT of some recent discussion by literary critics and historians , there has been a tendency to view them largely within the context of the explo- sion of ...
... Lives Mary Spongberg ALTHOUGH ROYAL LIVES WRITTEN BY WOMEN HAVE BEEN THE SUBJECT of some recent discussion by literary critics and historians , there has been a tendency to view them largely within the context of the explo- sion of ...
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... lives , and stripping them of their “ temporal , social and national particularities " in order to make them accessible to " a reader of any condition . " 3 By the midnineteenth century “ Queenliness ” was considered a quality to which ...
... lives , and stripping them of their “ temporal , social and national particularities " in order to make them accessible to " a reader of any condition . " 3 By the midnineteenth century “ Queenliness ” was considered a quality to which ...
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... Lives of the English Female Worthies ( 1833 ) . The series was never to be extended beyond this first volume , which contained the lives of Grey and Lucy Hutchinson . But Sandford was the author of other publications which situate her ...
... Lives of the English Female Worthies ( 1833 ) . The series was never to be extended beyond this first volume , which contained the lives of Grey and Lucy Hutchinson . But Sandford was the author of other publications which situate her ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Crisis Historiography | 29 |
Flora Annie Steels | 43 |
Copyright | |
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