The Early Feminists

Gleadle, Kathryn

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“…However, man-power did not automatically reside in men, nor woman-power in women, for the essences of these qualities were fluid, and could be found in members of either sex. [67] Crosskey insisted that women had been endowed by God with the same capabilities and shortcomings as men. As every legitimate area of human culture was a blessing from God, there was no area of life and learning from which women could rightfully be excluded other than through lack of individual ability.…”

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“…In these a vision of fatherhood was projected in which men shared with women a caring familial role. [73] Artificially-constructed divisions between the spheres of home and the outside world inhibited the development to full humanity of both sexes.…”

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“…It was that which made their vision of a liberal, educated and free society complete'. [83] Similarly, the feminism of Birmingham's Unitarians was one expression of the spirit of the 'civic gospel', which was grounded, like radical unitarianism, on a holistic understanding of reform. Indeed, as we have seen, the key preachers of the 'civic gospel', Crosskey and Dawson, were much influenced by radical unitarian ideas.…”

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‘ye are all one in Christ Jesus’: aspects of unitarianism and feminism in Birmingham, c. 1869–90

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“…134 Accordingly, the Unitarians did not have a monopoly on 'a particular set of liberal cultural views ' because they were attractive to a range of reformist-minded figures who occupied influential positions in British society. 135 The view which…”

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Hannah Lawrance and the Claims of Women's History in Nineteenth-Century England

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2010

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The historian, Hannah Lawrance (1795–1875), played an important role in nineteenth-century public debate about women's education. Like Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft, she argued that virtue had no sex and she promoted the broad education of women in order to increase their opportunities for employment. But unlike her bluestocking predecessors, she derived her argument from a scholarly reappraisal of women's history. Whereas the Strickland sisters' Tory Romantic histories celebrated the Tudor and Stuart eras in particular, Lawrance's ‘olden time’ celebrated the medieval period. This is when she located England's civilizational progress, driven by the education of queens and the wider state of women's education, allowing her to evade the potential conflict of a feminine creature in a manly role. Using the condition of women to measure the peaks and troughs of civilization was a familiar approach to historical writing, but Lawrance's radical argument was that women were often responsible for England's progress, rather than passive bystanders. Her emphasis on women's contribution to public life complemented the Whig-nationalist narrative and secured her a high reputation across a range of political periodicals. Above all, it appealed to other liberal reformers such as Thomas Hood, Charles Wentworth Dilke, and Robert Vaughan, who shared Lawrance's commitment to social reform and helped to secure a wide audience for her historical perspective.

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“…[9] Equally, there is now a growing body of evidence suggesting the importance of religious and ethical values to the creation and maintenance of such networks among women. [12] However, when the women's movement began in the late 1860s to form a range of new campaigning organisations, such as the suffrage societies, Quaker women were very much to the fore. Nor, with noteworthy exceptions like the Quaker Chartist, abolitionist and women's rights advocate Anne Knight, were they evident in discussions concerning the position of women in the 1830s-50s, in which Unitarian women played so prominent a part.…”

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Kinship and friendship: quaker women's networks and the women's movement sandra stanley holton

Holton

2005

Women's History Review

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Women Friends (or 'Quakers') were largely absent from the debates on the position of women in Britain in the 1830s-50s. But a significant group of women Quakers emerged at the forefront of organisations formed in the 1860s to campaign for women's rights, participation in which was still by no means a norm among their co-religionists. A notable presence among them was a group of women Friends, identified here as the Bright circle, linked by kinship, religion and radical politics. This article analyses the relationship between public and private lives among the Bright circle, especially in terms of the strength of the political networks on which they were able to draw. It examines the church culture of Friends in general, the domestic culture of this circle in particular, and the basis of its networks in domestic life. It concludes that the values and activities on which this network was built illustrate the way in which personal and public lives may overlap, so that the women among this circle were able to sustain identities that were authoritative, and simultaneously family-centred, outward-looking and publiclyminded.

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The Early Feminists

Cited by 107 publications

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‘ye are all one in Christ Jesus’: aspects of unitarianism and feminism in Birmingham, c. 1869–90

‘ye are all one in Christ Jesus’: aspects of unitarianism and feminism in Birmingham, c. 1869–90

Hannah Lawrance and the Claims of Women's History in Nineteenth-Century England

Kinship and friendship: quaker women's networks and the women's movement sandra stanley holton

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