Clio's Daughters Felber Lynette
Clio's Daughters Felber Lynette Clio's Daughters exposes the reality behind the notion that nineteenth-century history was an exclusively male preserve. The essays in this collection demonstrate that…
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Clio's Daughters Felber Lynette
Clio's Daughters exposes the reality behind the notion that nineteenth-century history was an exclusively male preserve. The essays in this collection demonstrate that women were neither mere muses or passive consumers of history and histories. A fortuitous convergence of factors-including the popularization of history and the success of lady novelists in the literary marketplace-contributed to women's emergence as writers of history.
A major contribution to the study of British historical cultures, Clio's Daughters reveals the wealth of women's historical writings, demonstrating that Victorian domestic ideology did not prevent women from making history, featuring both as historical subjects These underground historians may have been denied recognition as professional historians, but they appropriated historical subjects for fiction or disguised history in seemingly nonfictional genres.