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Thursday 18th August 2022
Many of Clorinda’s Circle, including Clorinda herself, had relatively little formal education, but various educational opportunities were available, inflected for class, religious affiliation, gender, etc
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Wednesday 17th August 2022
Women’s situation in marriage in the early nineteenth century: property, legalities, separation, divorce. Why a lady with a comfortable independence might not wish to dwindle into a wife.
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Wednesday 17th August 2022
Church and state were intimately connected at this period: many areas of life were under the control of the Established Church, even for those who were nonconformists or unbelievers.
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Wednesday 17th August 2022
Maybe we can’t talk about LGBTQ people then in exactly the ways we would today: but there were people engaging in same-sex relationships and people with non-conforming gender identities, in spite of legal penalties and social hostility.
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Wednesday 17th August 2022
Clorinda might sometimes protest that she was ‘not mistress in her own household’, but it was very well-run and it is clear that Seraphine (and later Euphemia) was a mistress of the arts of the kitchen, and that Phoebe had to know a good deal more than how to dust and scrub.
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Wednesday 17th August 2022
The state of the administration of law in early nineteenth century London