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
5 - “No More Fitting Commemoration”?
Reclaiming Victoria for the Women’s Movement during the Golden and Diamond Jubilees
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
Suffragists were enraged by their opponents' tactics. Surveying Queen Victoria's accomplishments from the vantage point of the 1870s and 1880s, feminist activists could plainly see that Victoria was not merely the “figurehead” that so many anti-suffragists purported her to be. Yet, in their quest to challenge those who insisted that Victoria was merely a puppet, they faced a fresh dilemma: how to promote the rights of the sovereign in an increasingly democratic political culture? This chapter explores this conundrum, following women's rights activists as they tried to wrest the queen from their opponents during the Golden and Diamond jubilee celebrations of 1887 and 1897.
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- The Right to Rule and the Rights of WomenQueen Victoria and the Women's Movement, pp. 148 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019