The Nature and Degree of Feminine Influence on English Politics from 1702 to 1737, as Exemplified by Five Women

• Main Author: Wilson, Edwina Lynn
• Other Authors: Snapp, Harry Franklin, 1930-
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1971
• Subjects: women; politics; leadership; history
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131497/

This investigation is concerned with the amount of influence which women had on English politics at the close of the seventeenth century and during the early eighteenth century. Generally, it is assumed that women played a negligible part in politics until the twentieth century; a critical study of the Augustan period, however, shows this to be an invalid assumption. Women were, during that period, elevated to positions of leadership and ascendancy unparalleled until the twentieth century.