Lecture – The View from the Ladies’ Gallery Or, Writing Political History as if Women Mattered – 6 November, EUI, Florence

Lecture by Susan Pedersen (Columbia University) in the framework of the History Department Monthly Research Meetings

The talk draws on Susan Pedersen’s current book project on the changing relationship between marriage and high politics in Britain from the 1880s to the 1920s.
It focuses on two women – Lady Frances Campbell, daughter of the whig landed magnate and politician, the 8^th Duke of Argyll, and Lady Betty Lytton, daughter of the Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India – who married into the elite and conservative Balfour family in 1879 and 1887. Frances and Betty expected to play a role as political wives in a still-dynastic order; instead, as both allies and rivals, they became significant political actors in their own right

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