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The right to rule and the rights of women : Queen Victoria and the women's movement
- Title
- The right to rule and the rights of women : Queen Victoria and the women's movement / Arianne Chernock, Boston University.
- Author
- Chernock, Arianne
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xi, 249 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Bracing words indeed, yet considered in isolation they actually tell us very little about how Queen Victoria figured in 19th-century conversations about women's rights in Britain. Victoria's opinions about female emancipation, after all, were initially registered in private, not public. While her opposition to women's rights would have been well known to her correspondents and a small circle of friends and associates, it was not conveyed to a broader public until decades later. The Queen's letter of 1852 to her Uncle Leopold, for example, only came to public attention in 1876, when it was included in Theodore Martin's The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort"--
- Alternative Title
- Queen Victoria and the women's movement
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-238) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9443
- ISBN
- 9781108484848
- 1108484840
- LCCN
- 2019008527
- 40029387350
- OCLC
- 1099544511
- Author
- Chernock, Arianne, author.
- Title
- The right to rule and the rights of women : Queen Victoria and the women's movement / Arianne Chernock, Boston University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-238) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1901
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108615549
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029387350
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9443