Book contents
- The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
- The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Radicalism of Female Rule in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 2 “An Argument of a Very Popular Character”
- 3 Rethinking the “Right to Rule” in Victorian Britain
- 4 The Anti-Suffragists’ Queen
- 5 “No More Fitting Commemoration”?
- Conclusion
- A Note on Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Queen Victoria versus the Suffragettes: The Politics of Queenship in Edwardian Britain
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2019
- The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
- The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Radicalism of Female Rule in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- 2 “An Argument of a Very Popular Character”
- 3 Rethinking the “Right to Rule” in Victorian Britain
- 4 The Anti-Suffragists’ Queen
- 5 “No More Fitting Commemoration”?
- Conclusion
- A Note on Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Feminist campaigners’ tactics during the jubilee celebrations may have attracted attention, but they did not ultimately change policies. This frustrated reformers – a frustration only exacerbated by the fact that Victoria had as yet given little open public encouragement to the Women's Movement and its projects. When Victoria died in 1901, therefore, women's rights proponents were at best ambivalent about the queen and her legacy. This concluding chapter traces how feminists struggled to keep Victoria in play during the Edwardian period. This was an initiative that only became more complicated once Victoria's own negative views on female suffrage became public knowledge in 1902.
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- The Right to Rule and the Rights of WomenQueen Victoria and the Women's Movement, pp. 193 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019