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Dec. 4th, 2021 02:42 pmPetticoat Patronage: elite Scotswomen’s roles, identity, and agency in Jacobite political affairs, 1688-1766 by Anita Randell Fairney (2015)
A Ph D thesis. It had a lot of interesting stuff about the roles of women: the political endogamy that led to new generations of Jacobites being brought up; women using the patronage system to save their menfolk who had been sentenced to death or exile, and also saving their estates; women managing estates; women passing information and being active in plotting; women taking roles as patronesses, raising troops, and doing political hosting.
But honestly the coolest thing I learned from it is the central roles played primarily by Anne Drummond, countess of Erroll, and Elizabeth Howard, duchess of Gordon, in the plotting leading up to the failed revolution of 1708.
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Well, this may not be directly relevant to the story I'm writing, but it was very interesting nevertheless! Competent middle-aged women FTW. Would read a novel about Anne Erroll.
A Ph D thesis. It had a lot of interesting stuff about the roles of women: the political endogamy that led to new generations of Jacobites being brought up; women using the patronage system to save their menfolk who had been sentenced to death or exile, and also saving their estates; women managing estates; women passing information and being active in plotting; women taking roles as patronesses, raising troops, and doing political hosting.
But honestly the coolest thing I learned from it is the central roles played primarily by Anne Drummond, countess of Erroll, and Elizabeth Howard, duchess of Gordon, in the plotting leading up to the failed revolution of 1708.
( Read more... )
Well, this may not be directly relevant to the story I'm writing, but it was very interesting nevertheless! Competent middle-aged women FTW. Would read a novel about Anne Erroll.
