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Women and the Glorious Revolution*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2014

Lois G. Schwoerer
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The role of women in revolutions has recently excited a good deal of scholarly interest. Innovative studies have appeared on women in the English Civil War, the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution that have not only rescued women from oblivion but also modified and enlarged understanding of the revolutions themselves. But for the English Revolution of 1688-89 there has been, aside from biographical studies of the two future queens, Mary and Anne, very little published work on the role of women. My purpose is to remedy that situation, and to broaden the inquiry by addressing four major questions: (1) what role did women from all social groups, lower, middle, aristocratic and royal, play in the Revolution: (2) why, in view of customary restraints, did they enter the public arena; (3) what influence did they have on the Glorious Revolution; and (4) what influence did the Revolution have on women? Underlying these queries is the basic question of what are the contextual conditions that encourage or even make possible women's participation in revolutions?

Such a topic requires changes in the questions customarily used in studying political history. If politics is defined in traditional terms simply as the competition for and exercise of power by individuals through their office, voting, and decision making, then there is nothing to say about women in the Glorious Revolution. Women, whatever their social status, had no direct access to the levers of conventionally-defined politics. They did not vote, sit in either house of Parliament, or hold office on any level of government, unless they were queens. In a predominantly patriarchal society, females, except for widows, were customarily subordinate to their fathers or husbands and confined to the sphere of the family and household.

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Albion , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , Summer 1986 , pp. 195 - 218
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Copyright © North American Conference on British Studies 1986

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A version of this paper was presented at the Sixth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 1984. I have incurred many debts in assembling the scattered tracts written by women. I thank librarians at the following libraries and record offices for sending me photocopies: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Bodleian Library; British Library; Christ Church Library, Oxford University; Haverford College Library; Religious Society of Friends; John Rylands Library, University of Manchester; Trinity College Library, Cambridge University. I thank especially the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres for permission to photocopy material from his collection at the John Rylands Library. I am also grateful for courtesies extended to me at the Guildhall Library, the Corporation of London Record Office, and Sion College Library. I am indebted to Marie P.G. Draper, Archivist at the Bedford Office, London. I thank the Marquis of Tavistock for permission to use and quote from his family papers. I also want to acknowledge the ongoing assistance of the staff at the Folger Shakespeare Library. I am grateful to Gary D. DeKrey, JoAnne Moran, Gordon Schochet, Hilda Smith, and David Underdown for answering specific questions. I thank Hilda Smith and Barbara Taft for reading a version of this essay.

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