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Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837' is an engaging and lively collection of original, thought-provoking essays. Its route from Lady Jane Grey’s nine-day reign to Queen Victoria’s accession provides ample opportunities to examine complex interactions between gender, rank, and power. Yet the book’s scope extends far beyond queens its female cast includes servants, aristocrats, literary women, opera singers, actresses, fallen women, athletes and mine workers.

The collection explores themes relating to female power and physical strength; infertility, motherhood, sexuality and exploitation; creativity and celebrity; marriage and female friendship. It draws upon a wide range of primary materials to explore diverse representations of women illuminating accounts of real women’s lives appear alongside fictional portrayals and ideological constructions of femininity. In exploring women’s negotiations with patriarchal control, this book demonstrates how the lived experience of women did not always correspond to prescribed social and gendered norms, revealing the rich complexity of their lives.

This volume has been published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837. The group was formed to promote research into any aspect of women’s lives as experienced or depicted within this period. The depth, range and creativity of the essays in this book reflect the myriad interests of its members.

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"Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837 by Louise Duckling is a free advanced reader copy of a hardcover book offered to me by Pen & Sword in exchange for an honest review.

This books covers topics related to an important woman, reform movements, works of media, and professions, such as Lady Jane Grey and Queens Victoria, Mary, and Elizabeth I as highly intelligent and educated, possibly groomed to become queen; sexual protection, held preconceptions about intercourse; Anne Finch as court poetress and tending to Queen Anne; the rarity of women’s obituaries; Mary Wollstonecraft; female characters in literature pursuing relationships and protecting her virtue, while instructive manuals given mixed signals on what a woman should or should not do; finding community with other women; Billington and Mara, warring opera divas (so much like Bernhardt & Duse); the stage actress Eliza O’Neill; and athletic pursuits, like running, tennis, horseback riding, spinning wool, and coal-carrying."

Product details Hardcover 248 pages Publisher Pen and Sword History (February 7, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 152674497X

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Exploring the Lives of Women 15581837 Louise Duckling Sara Read Felicity Roberts Carolyn D Williams 9781526744975 Books Reviews

• Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837 by Louise Duckling is a free advanced reader copy of a hardcover book offered to me by Pen & Sword in exchange for an honest review.
  
  This books covers topics related to an important woman, reform movements, works of media, and professions, such as Lady Jane Grey and Queens Victoria, Mary, and Elizabeth I as highly intelligent and educated, possibly groomed to become queen; sexual protection, held preconceptions about intercourse; Anne Finch as court poetress and tending to Queen Anne; the rarity of women’s obituaries; Mary Wollstonecraft; female characters in literature pursuing relationships and protecting her virtue, while instructive manuals given mixed signals on what a woman should or should not do; finding community with other women; Billington and Mara, warring opera divas (so much like Bernhardt & Duse); the stage actress Eliza O’Neill; and athletic pursuits, like running, tennis, horseback riding, spinning wool, and coal-carrying.