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HANNAH LAWRANCE AND THE CLAIMS OF WOMEN'S HISTORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2010

BENJAMIN DABBY
BENJAMIN DABBY*
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TAbjd26@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

The historian, Hannah Lawrance (1795–1875), played an important role in nineteenth-century public debate about women's education. Like Catharine Macaulay and Mary Wollstonecraft, she argued that virtue had no sex and she promoted the broad education of women in order to increase their opportunities for employment. But unlike her bluestocking predecessors, she derived her argument from a scholarly reappraisal of women's history. Whereas the Strickland sisters' Tory Romantic histories celebrated the Tudor and Stuart eras in particular, Lawrance's ‘olden time’ celebrated the medieval period. This is when she located England's civilizational progress, driven by the education of queens and the wider state of women's education, allowing her to evade the potential conflict of a feminine creature in a manly role. Using the condition of women to measure the peaks and troughs of civilization was a familiar approach to historical writing, but Lawrance's radical argument was that women were often responsible for England's progress, rather than passive bystanders. Her emphasis on women's contribution to public life complemented the Whig-nationalist narrative and secured her a high reputation across a range of political periodicals. Above all, it appealed to other liberal reformers such as Thomas Hood, Charles Wentworth Dilke, and Robert Vaughan, who shared Lawrance's commitment to social reform and helped to secure a wide audience for her historical perspective.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 699 - 722
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I owe special thanks to my research supervisor, Peter Mandler, for his comments on a draft of this article. An earlier version was delivered to the Gender and History Graduate Workshop, Cambridge University, 3 March 2009. I am grateful to Clare Jackson and the anonymous readers at the Historical Journal for their criticism, and to Anna Clark and the anonymous readers at the Journal of British Studies.

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26 Peter Mandler, The English national character: the history of an idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair (New Haven, CT, 2006), pp. 86–8.

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29 See Wilkes, Women reviewing women, p. 67.

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39 See Margaret Wade Labarge, A medieval miscellany (Ottawa, 1997), p. 95.

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41 Idem, Historical memoirs, i, p. 16.

42 Ibid., p. 17.

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53 Ibid., pp. 6, 11, 195–7.

54 Lawrance, Historical memoirs, ii, 15.

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60 Ibid., pp. 129–30. See also Lawrance, History of woman, p. 325.

61 Idem, Historical memoirs, i, pp. 132, 139.

62 Ibid., pp. 144–5.

63 Ibid., pp. 155–56. Cf. Green, Lives of the princesses, i, p. 189.

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65 Idem, Historical memoirs, i, pp. 159–60. Lawrance is citing Turner. See also Lawrance, History of woman, p. 330; Sharon Turner, History of England, from the Norman conquest, to the accession of Edward the first (London, 1814), p. 445.

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68 Idem, ‘Society in the age of Elizabeth’, p. 414.

69 Ibid., p. 443.

70 Ibid., pp. 420, 429. Lawrance is citing Roger Ascham.

71 Idem, ‘Dramatic poetry in the age of Elizabeth’, British Quarterly Review, 14, (1851), pp. 31–67, at pp. 39–40.

72 Idem, ‘Society in the age of Elizabeth’, p. 432.

73 Ibid., p. 430.

74 Ibid., p. 437.

75 Idem, ‘English society under James I’, British Quarterly Review, 7, (1848), pp. 73–104, at p. 103.

76 Broome Saunders, Women writers, pp. 105–10

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83 Idem, ‘Society in the age of Elizabeth’, p. 444.

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87 Idem, ‘The historical element in ballads’, British Quarterly Review, 33, (1861), pp. 443–68, at p. 444.

88 Idem, ‘The Anglo-Norman poets of the twelfth century’, British Quarterly Review, 5, (1847), pp. 159–86, at p. 159.

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97 [Lawrance], ‘Novelties’, pp. 194–5.

98 Ibid., pp. 199–200.

99 Ibid., pp. 201–2.

100 Ibid., p. 203. See also idem, ‘History of England under the house of Stuart’, Athenaeum, 703 (1841), p. 304.

101 Idem, ‘Novelties’, p. 203.

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137 R. Tudor Jones, Congregationalism in England, 1662–1962 (London, 1962), p. 246.

138 Mitchell, ‘Lawrance, Hannah’, in Matthew and Harrison, eds., Oxford dictionary of national biography, xxxii, pp. 787–8.

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140 E. Paxton Hood, Thomas Binney: his mind life and opinions, doctrinal, denominational, devotional, and practical (London, 1874), p. 223.

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143 Charles Dickens to Hannah Lawrance (19 Apr. 1854 and late Apr. 1854), in Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, and Angus Easson, eds., The letters of Charles Dickens (12 vols., Oxford, 1965–2002), vii, pp. 318–19, 323.

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146 Alexander Gordon, ‘Vaughan, Robert (1795–1868)’, rev. Anne Stott, in Matthew and Harrison, eds., Oxford dictionary of national biography, lvi, p. 198.

147 Robert Vaughan, On the study of general history, an introductory lecture, delivered in the university of London, on the evening of February 14, 1834 (London, 1834).

148 Jones, Congregationalism in England, 1662–1962, pp. 212–13.

149 [Johnstone], ‘Historical memoirs of the queens of England [Second Notice]’, p. 113.

150 Cf. Gleadle, Early feminists, p. 172.