ABSTRACT

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 sou

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|28 pages

The Political Agronomy of the Nation

chapter 2|25 pages

The Ruinous Genius

chapter 3|30 pages

All Those Ties and Obligations

chapter 4|32 pages

The Ornament of Society

chapter 5|32 pages

No More Than Woman

chapter 6|31 pages

Reform Thyself