Right to Rule and the Rights of Women

Queen Victoria is often cast as a foe of the women''s movement - the sovereign who famously declared women''s rights to be a ''mad, wicked folly''. Yet these words weren''t circulated publicly until after the Queen''s death in 1901. Beginning with this insight, this book reveals Victoria as a ruler who captured the imaginations of nineteenth-century feminists. Women''s rights activists routinely u...