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Hace 3 días · Amanda Vickery's new book is largely based on several rich collections of women's letters and diaries, most notably those of Elizabeth Parker Shackleton, whose family belonged to the lesser gentry and mercantile elite of Lancashire in the eighteenth century. These women's voices -- in turns passionate, pious, sentimental and sardonic, resentful ...
Hace 3 días · Professor Bernard Capp, review of Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England, (review no. 654) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/654. Date accessed: 16 May, 2024. It is a truth universally acknowledged and documented many years ago by David Cressy, that women in early modern England had far lower rates of literacy than men.
Hace 3 días · Hi everyone! It’s Sophie Spruce, editor of Pride and Possibilities, here with a very special edition on Regency letter writing.For this issue, I’ll be interviewing Barbara Heller, curator of a special edition of Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand and Eleanor Rust, who has a PhD in Classics and a ...
Hace 16 horas · Anne Boleyn ( / ˈbʊlɪn, bʊˈlɪn /; [7] [8] [9] c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution by beheading for treason, made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation .
Hace 4 días · There are many paintings that represent the British Empire, but The Secret of England’s Greatness (1863) by Thomas Jones Barker is one of the most powerful. It depicts Queen Victoria presenting a bible to a kneeling African chief in the Audience Chamber at Windsor. In the background are her husband, Albert, and members of the government.
Hace 2 días · Mary Tuke was the little known mother of York’s chocolate industry and proved herself an indomitable force against the all-male Merchant Adventurers. Influenced by her Quaker ethics, she began the philanthropic works continued by her successors. Mary Anne Craven was another strong woman, forced by circumstance to pick up the reins of the ...
Hace 4 días · The ambitious scope of The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 justifies a comparison with such magisterial works as Keith Thomas’ Man and the Natural World, Donald Worster’s Nature’s Economy, and Raymond Williams’ The City and the Country. (1) An urge ‘for system, order and design’ defined the unity of 18th-century thought ...
