In nineteenth-century England, marriage between first cousins was both legally permitted
and perfectly acceptable. After mid-century, laws did not explicitly penalize sexual …

In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women's
suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and …

This book is an historical survey of women's sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the
more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about …

Page 1 Women. Work and the Victorian Periodical Lºng by he lºº Marianne Van Remoortel
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture General Ediſor Jºh Bºº Page 2 …

This introductory essay, firstly, offers a comparative, historical perspective on the
transformation of petitioning into a vehicle for mass popular politics across North America …

Through an examination of the women's suffrage movement, this article reassesses the
place of petitioning within late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century British political culture …

When the history of the struggle of women for freedom and opportunity, in this country is
written, no name will stand higher than that of Mrs. Wolstenholme Elmy (Margaret Sibthorp …

An examination of recent gender scholarship demonstrates how a gendered lens has
contributed to the debates on society, the state and education. Using local and international …

2Galton further extended the results of his questionnaire to hypothesize about differences
between “races,” speculating that the French “are able to foresee effects with unusual …

Abstract Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's pursuit of a medical education and career in Great
Britain in the 1860s sharply contrasts with the rise of a class of female medical practitioners …