What’s new: June 2023
June 7, 2023
This month’s update comprises ten new articles on women active in public life from the end of the fourteenth to the late twentieth century: Joan Beauchamp (Lady Bergavenny), Joan Cooke, Hortense Mancini (duchess of Mazarin), Jane Baldwin, Sarah Curran, Lucy Cavendish, Marjorie Powell, Madeleine Symons, Dorothy Elliott, Margaret Campbell (duchess of Argyll). Read the introduction here.
Baldwin [née Maltass], Jane (1763–1839), society beauty |
Campbell [née Whigham; other married name Sweeny], (Ethel) Margaret, duchess of Argyll (1912–1993), socialite |
Cavendish [née Lyttleton], Lucy Caroline [known as Lady Frederick Cavendish] (1841–1925), promoter of women’s education, voluntary worker, and diarist |
Cooke [née Massinger], Joan (d. 1545/6), benefactor and vowess |
Curran [married name Sturgeon], Sarah (1782–1808), fiancée of Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet and subject of romantic legend |
Elliott [married name Jones], Dorothy Mary (1896–1980), feminist and trade union activist |
Mancini, Hortense (Ortensia), duchess of Mazarin (1646–1699), literary hostess, memoirist, and royal mistress |
Powell [married name Robinson], Marjorie Eve (1893–1939), economist and university teacher |
Symons [married name Robinson], Madeleine Jane (1895–1957), trade unionist and penal reformer |
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