Sacred to Female Patriotism: Gender, Class, and Politics in Late Georgian Britain

by Judith S. Lewis and S Lewis Judith

Book Overview

Missing from much of the scholarship on 18th century British politics is recognition of the extensive participation of aristocratic women. Fortunately, as a literate and self-conscious group, these women created and preserved vast manuscript collections now available to historians. In Sacred to Female Patriotism, Judith S. Lewis taps into these sources to demonstrate how the social and political worlds of Georgian Britain interacted to give women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415944120
• ISBN13: 9780415944120
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"