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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Englishwomen"”.
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Exploring Transient Identities: Deconstructing Depictions Of Gender And Imperial Ideology In The Oriental Travel Narratives Of Englishwomen, 1831-1915
Englishwomen who traveled to the "Orient" in the Victorian era constructed an identity that was British in its bravery, middle-class in its refinement, feminine in appearance and speech and Christian in its intolerance of Oriental heathenism. Studying Victorian female travel narratives that …
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O chyldren! Geue eare your duties to learne: The education of upper-class Englishwomen in late medieval and early modern England
"The hereditary aristocracy of England used education to maintain its cultural, political, and economic superiority of men and women in the hierarchy of society. Aristocratic education was training for leadership of the group and the skills taught were those that the group defined as signifying a …
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"Verie needfull for this time" : representations of women in sixteenth-century English prayer manuals.
… biblical examples to be proper models for Englishwomen in a changing world. These manuals have been overlooked in the study of women and religion, and this thesis aims to emphasize the importance of prayer scripts as valuable sources that show how English writers perceived and portrayed …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
… Meister’s Apprenticeship</em> to Early Modern Englishwomen writer’s textual negotiations within a male dominant, humanist society. Writers like Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Mary Astell engaged in unprecedented textual strategies that subverted their fixed and often challenged roles. …
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Building An Identity : Two Noblewomen In England 1566-1666
… the domestic roles assigned to high ranking Englishwomen. This study of their lives and commissions showed these women to be assuming head of family functions, through which they claimed high rank for themselves, which was only marginally affected by their consciousness of inferior female …
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Prodigal daughters: Imprisoned women, reform, and the femine ideal in the British Isles, 1800-1877
… they were more likely to be imprisoned than were Englishwomen.
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Heritage, letters, and public history : Dorothea Fairbridge and loyal unionist cultural initiatives in South Africa, circa 1890-1930'
… in Kwazulu-Natal. The role of genteel anglophone Englishwomen in defining Cape identity at the time of Union is explored, and Fairbridge's Guild of Loyal Women is shown to have been the origins of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Questions of archivism, memory, history and memorialism are …