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Women And Leadership In Nineteenth-Century England

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  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. Lilian Lewis Shiman

    1. Nichols College, Dudley, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: The Walls of Jericho

    1. Introduction: The Walls of Jericho

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 1-7

  3. 1750–1850: The Voice of the Lord

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. They Sat Not Still

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 13-19

    3. The Call to Preach

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 20-32

    4. Class and Politics

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 33-42

    5. The Call to Social and Political Action

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 43-55

  4. 1850–1875: The Sound of the Horn

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. The Two Spheres

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 64-71

    3. Economic Disabilities

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 72-90

    4. Religious Revival

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 91-107

    5. Reform Leadership

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 108-118

  5. 1875–1900: The Great Shout

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Speaking Out

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 125-137

    3. ‘This Revolt of the Women’

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 138-150

    4. A National Temperance Movement

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 151-170

    5. For Church, Crown and Empire

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 171-181

    6. Raised Voices for Justice

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 182-201

    7. Conclusion: With Overwhelming Voices

      • Lilian Lewis Shiman
      Pages 202-205

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 206-263
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England in the nineteenth century became a predominantly middle-class society, with new opportunities for men, but new social and economic restrictions on "respectable" women. This book describes the emergence of exceptional women from their assigned domestic sphere to positions of public leadership, and finally to the cause of women's rights. Evangelical women in John Wesley's time preached publicly, but after his death were banished from the pulpits of mainstream Methodism. Other women, particularly Quakers, were soon heard in the anti-slavery movements and other reform causes of the 1820s, 30s, and 40s. In the middle of the century opposition to women entering public life was at its greatest. But some pathfinding women emboldened others by their leadership in the reforming missions and the revival campaigns of the 1850s, 60s, and 70s, especially within the temperance movement. By the last quarter of the century talented women were learning "unwomanly" skills of political leadership, particularly mastery of the public platform. In a succession of national women's organizations they applied the lessons learnt to women's issues, preparing for the final assault on "the key to all reform", women's suffrage. At the century's end the walls that had so long excluded women from public life were beginning to crumble.

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  • Nichols College, Dudley, USA

    Lilian Lewis Shiman

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