' 'To Put on the Breeches?' Charlotte de la Trémoille, Countess of Derby: A Study of Seventeenth Century Aristocratic Female Life'
Date(s): 2007
Creator(s): McKenzie, Beth
Scope & Content: University of Durham undergraduate history degree dissertation for which piece of course work the author was awarded a First. The author examines the private, public and personal lives of Charlotte through what she wrote and what was written about her.
She notes that Charlotte is a woman of great interest to historians, being an aristocratic women living in a turbulent period of history: her life sheds light on questions of gender, family relationships and female political consciousness.
Language: English
Extent: 1 volume (37 pages)
Item name: dissertation
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: MS 13006
Record class: Private
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