Review
'The most important book in women's history for at least a decade. It is a beacon of light... at last, the great women aristocrats of the Georgian era are revealed in all their ambition and acumen.' - Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 'In my opinion, the work is important enough that few will be able to write about the social or political history of late Honoverian Britain or Ireland without consulting it.' - James J. Sack, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Women of the British aristocracy are only beginning to receive serious attention from historians. This book stands to fill a major gap in providing a broad overview of women in politics in late Georgian Britain, and in doing so, provides a significant amount of information about electoral politics generally in the 18th century. Relying heavily on the manuscript collections of the literate and self-conscious women of the Georgian British aristocracy, Lewis makes a convincing case for the extensive power of females in the political system of late 18th and 19th century Britain. She examines history of dress in period, this history of ideas and political philosophy, and in the process of these excursions, we learn a good deal about a significant period in British history, and perhaps for the first time, its women. Lewis is a passionate historian with a unique voice, and the manuscript was strongly recommended by reviewers.
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