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Hace 4 días · She does include more current work on the ideology of late Victorian education, but this cannot illustrate the feminist historiography about the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Vickery's chief target, however, seems to be a more recent work, Leonore Davidoff’s and Catherine Hall's Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850(1987).
Hace 2 días · The nature of diplomacy is characterised here as a world of ‘social politics’, a characterisation adopted from Elaine Chalus’ work on 18th-century aristocratic women. The examples drawn on here (the five wives of British envoys to Persia between 1815 and 1853, Frances Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry, and Senora Calderon de la Barca) go some way to exploring this world.
Hace 3 días · From the rapid advance of industrialization and urbanization to the expansion of the British Empire, groundbreaking scientific discoveries to the birth of modern leisure and consumerism, the Victorian era was a period of unparalleled dynamism and innovation.
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 2 días · Hill House, opened by Lt-Col. H.S. Townsend in Switzerland in 1948 and at no. 17 Hans Place in 1951, was the first school attended by Prince Charles (later Prince of Wales), in 1957. Described as pre-preparatory in 1958 and as Hill House International Junior School by 1970, it had five premises around Knightsbridge and over 1,000 boys and girls ...
Hace 3 días · Victoria and Albert believed in providing their children with a well-rounded education that included not only traditional subjects like history and languages, but also practical skills such as cooking and carpentry.
Hace 3 días · Discover how her influence shaped arts, culture, and the social fabric alongside her husband, Prince Albert. Delve into the lives of the opulent aristocracy and the emergent middle class, fueled...
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