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Hace 3 días · Mary I of England (1516-1558) The eldest daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon, Mary I was a steadfast Catholic who sought to undo many of her father‘s religious reforms. Crowned England‘s first queen regnant in 1553 at the age of 37, Mary faced significant challenges to her legitimacy due to her gender and faith.
Hace 3 días · As Karen O’Brien writes in Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain, ‘Eighteenth-century writers’ sense of the boundary between the domestic and social realms was generally fluid and informal’ (p. 11). In what is an important, thought-provoking and wonderfully-written study of femininity, women and British Enlightenment ...
Hace 3 días · Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( / ˈrʌdjərd / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology ( The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim ...
Hace 2 días · — William Godwin to Mary Shelley After her husband's death, Mary Shelley lived for a year with Leigh Hunt and his family in Genoa, where she often saw Byron and transcribed his poems. She resolved to live by her pen and for her son, but her financial situation was precarious. On 23 July 1823, she left Genoa for England and stayed with her father and stepmother in the Strand until a small ...
Hace 3 días · Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940. London, Routledge, 2010, ISBN: 9780415232135; 256pp.; Price: £22.99. This volume makes an excellent contribution to the field of religious and gender history, properly marking the revival of interest in religion within British cultural and social history that has been quietly ...
Hace 2 días · Mary Robinson wrote in a similar vein in "A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination.", 1799. A Punch cartoon from 1867 mocking John Stuart Mill's attempt to replace the term 'man' with 'person', i.e. give women the right to vote. Caption: Mill's Logic: Or, Franchise for Females.
Hace 4 días · By marrying his daughter to Llywelyn, John was effectively acknowledging Llywelyn’s status and position as prince of north Wales and as a fellow ruler of a lesser, though not inconsiderable, power. King John of England. Joan and Llywelyn’s marriage appeared to be a happy one, and there is evidence that the prince doted upon his bride.
