Elite Women And The Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 (studies In Historical Geography)
by Briony McDonagh /
2017 / English / PDF
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Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have
largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers.
1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes
of the English Midlands was reshaped – both materially and
imaginatively – by parliamentary enclosure and a bundle of other
new practices. Outside the Midlands too, local landscapes were
remodelled in line with the improving ideals of the era. Yet
while we know a great deal about the men who pushed forward
schemes for enclosure and sponsored agricultural improvement, far
less is known about the role played by female landowners and
farmers and their contributions to landscape change.
Social and economic histories of the long eighteenth century have
largely ignored women as a class of landowners and improvers.
1700 to 1830 was a period in which the landscape of large swathes
of the English Midlands was reshaped – both materially and
imaginatively – by parliamentary enclosure and a bundle of other
new practices. Outside the Midlands too, local landscapes were
remodelled in line with the improving ideals of the era. Yet
while we know a great deal about the men who pushed forward
schemes for enclosure and sponsored agricultural improvement, far
less is known about the role played by female landowners and
farmers and their contributions to landscape change.
Drawing on examples from across Georgian England,
Drawing on examples from across Georgian England,Elite Women
and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830
Elite Women
and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 offers a detailed
study of elite women’s relationships with landed property,
specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their
estate management and improvement. This highly original book
provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the
eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses
important questions about propertied women’s role in English
rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst
contributing to wider cultural debates about women’s place in the
environmental, social and economic history of Britain. It will be
of interest to those working in Historical and Cultural
Geography, Social, Economic and Cultural History, Women’s
Studies, Gender Studies and Landscape Studies.
offers a detailed
study of elite women’s relationships with landed property,
specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their
estate management and improvement. This highly original book
provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the
eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses
important questions about propertied women’s role in English
rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst
contributing to wider cultural debates about women’s place in the
environmental, social and economic history of Britain. It will be
of interest to those working in Historical and Cultural
Geography, Social, Economic and Cultural History, Women’s
Studies, Gender Studies and Landscape Studies.