Kathryn Gleadle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1133799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Gleadle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Gleadle |
| SIGNATURE | GLEADLE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6129-4557 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Library of Our Own Compositions’
This article examines the Minervian Library, an extraordinary collection of children’s manuscript stories produced in mid-Victorian Orkney. Established in 1866 by sisters Mary and Clara Cowan and their cousin Isabella Bremner, the collaborative project had ambitions beyond its beginnings as a family literary endeavour: the girls envisaged a working library complete with membership and borrowing records. On offer to the ‘Library Damsels of the Min…
Children Against Slavery
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, many contemporaries observed a striking phenomenon: that children were especially active in the boycotts of sugar produced by enslaved people. First-hand accounts often suggested that children's activism was unilateral and unmediated, whereas historians of British abolitionism have tended to assume that children were passive recipients of antislavery literature and adult influence. Engagin…
Magazine Culture, Girlhood Communities, and Educational Reform in Late Victorian Britain
This will appear online only.This article argues for the importance of restoring girls’ aspirations and self-education to narratives of Victorian educational reform. Studies typically focus upon the efforts of professionals, politicians and campaigners in plotting the pioneering changes to girls’ education in the second half of the nineteenth century. Here it is contended that the success of these developments depended upon a new generation of gi…
Space, Place and Gendered Identities
1. Introduction: Space, Place and Gendered Identities: feminist history and the spatial turn Kathryne Beebe, Angela Davis and Kathryn Gleadle 2. Sexuality in Heterotopia: time, space and love between women in the historic house Alison Oram 3. Making a Scene: struggles over lesbian place-making in anglophone Canada, 1964-1984 Liz Millward 4. Place and Power in Irish Farms at the End of the Nineteenth Century Katie Barclay 5 Making Space: English w…
Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850–1899, by Melanie Reynolds
"Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850–1899, by Melanie Reynolds." Women's History Review, 26(4), pp. 667–668
Global feminisms, c . 1870–1930
This ‘Viewpoint’ assesses some recent approaches to the study of feminisms across the globe during the c. 1870–1930 period. At a moment when historians are working towards the commemoration of women's partial enfranchisement in Britain in 1918, we consider the intellectual frameworks that most effectively celebrate this achievement whilst also situating the Act within its complex, global context. Reflecting on discussions held at a recent worksho…
Masculinity, Age and Life Cycle in the Age of Reform
The 1867 Reform Act created a polity in which, for 50 years, age and householding status were frequently more important than class in determining British men's right to vote. In the debates leading up to the act, both age and householder status were deployed to manage fears of greater democratisation. This essay traces some of the associative connections parliamentarians made between the sexual and family status of potential voters; their relatio…
The Juvenile Enlightenment
This article explores the enthusiastic reception with which many young Britons greeted the French Revolution. In some cases this sparked intense debate about the politics of family life, as children and youths sought to apply revolutionary principles of equality and democracy to their own lives. This was not an isolated phenomenon which sprang up simply in response to the revolution itself, however. Rather, it was the sharpest demonstration of wh…
Making Women's Histories
The Riches and Treasures of Other Countries’
The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain
Ben Griffin’s new monograph raises an important, but curiously neglected, question: what were the motivations, ideas and arguments used by Victorian Members of Parliament to support or oppose women’s rights? Essentially, how did women’s rights legislation pass through parliament and what obstacles did it face? Griffin is an astute political historian, and this is a rigorous study based upon an impressive knowledge of parliamentary sources as well…
SAMANTHA Williams. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834
Journal Article Samantha Williams. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760–1834. Get access Samantha Williams. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760–1834. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series.) London: Royal Historical Society, with Boydell Press, Rochester, N.Y. 2011. Pp. xiii, 190. $90.00. Kathryn Gleadle Kathryn Gleadle University of Oxford Search for other works by this auth…
The Imagined Communities of Women's History
This article reconsiders some of the emergent features of feminist history since 2001. It employs Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the ‘rhizome’—a root structure which grows in unpredictable and manifold directions—as a means to conceptualise the complicated intellectual shifts within the field. The article warns that in some respects there are signs that the progress of ‘women's history’ has begun to slow. The rhizome provides a radical metaphor…
Introduction
Gender and Change
Gender and Change: agency, chronology and periodisation ALEXANDRA SHEPARD & GARTHINE WALKER (Eds) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 Pp. x + 294. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 9227 9 This lively volume brings
Murder and morality in Victorian Britain
Revisiting Family Fortunes
This article seeks to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Leonore Davidoff & Catherine Hall’s Family Fortunes: men and women of the English middle class, 1780–1850. Given the enormous shifts in the historical discipline since its publication, it seeks to assess the work’s relevance for today’s audience. A consideration of the book’s initial reception provides a reminder of the intellectual climate in which it was published. Whils…
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and the Mobilization of Tory Women in Early Victorian England
This article addresses the historiographical neglect of tory women in the early Victorian period. The existence of a vibrant culture of female conservative letters, combined with the widespread participation of women in ultra-Protestant pressure-group politics, is suggestive of the neglected contribution women made to the revival of grass-roots toryism during these years. In particular, it is suggested that a consideration of the distinctive feat…
Hannah More
1University College, Oxford Hannah More: The First Victorian Anne Stott Oxford Oxford U.P. 2003 xxiii + 384 £ 25
British Women in the Nineteenth Century
Social History in Perspective is a series of in
Women in British Politics, 1760–1860
This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressu
The Early Feminists
This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian Feminist movement began in the 1850s, this book, by
Revisiting Family Fortunes
This article seeks to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Leonore Davidoff & Catherine Hall’s Family Fortunes: men and women of the English middle class, 1780–1850. Given the enormous shifts in the historical discipline since its publication, it seeks to assess the work’s relevance for today’s audience. A consideration of the book’s initial reception provides a reminder of the intellectual climate in which it was published. Whils…
Introduction
The Juvenile Enlightenment
This article explores the enthusiastic reception with which many young Britons greeted the French Revolution. In some cases this sparked intense debate about the politics of family life, as children and youths sought to apply revolutionary principles of equality and democracy to their own lives. This was not an isolated phenomenon which sprang up simply in response to the revolution itself, however. Rather, it was the sharpest demonstration of wh…
Hannah More
1University College, Oxford Hannah More: The First Victorian Anne Stott Oxford Oxford U.P. 2003 xxiii + 384 £ 25
Children Against Slavery
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, many contemporaries observed a striking phenomenon: that children were especially active in the boycotts of sugar produced by enslaved people. First-hand accounts often suggested that children's activism was unilateral and unmediated, whereas historians of British abolitionism have tended to assume that children were passive recipients of antislavery literature and adult influence. Engagin…
Global feminisms, c . 1870–1930
This ‘Viewpoint’ assesses some recent approaches to the study of feminisms across the globe during the c. 1870–1930 period. At a moment when historians are working towards the commemoration of women's partial enfranchisement in Britain in 1918, we consider the intellectual frameworks that most effectively celebrate this achievement whilst also situating the Act within its complex, global context. Reflecting on discussions held at a recent worksho…
The Riches and Treasures of Other Countries’
The Early Feminists
This book redefines the origins of the women's rights campaigns in Britain. Contrary to the existing historiography, which argues that the Victorian Feminist movement began in the 1850s, this book, by
Women in British Politics, 1760–1860
This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressu
British Women in the Nineteenth Century
Social History in Perspective is a series of in
Hannah More
1University College, Oxford Hannah More: The First Victorian Anne Stott Oxford Oxford U.P. 2003 xxiii + 384 £ 25
Revisiting Family Fortunes
This article seeks to mark the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Leonore Davidoff & Catherine Hall’s Family Fortunes: men and women of the English middle class, 1780–1850. Given the enormous shifts in the historical discipline since its publication, it seeks to assess the work’s relevance for today’s audience. A consideration of the book’s initial reception provides a reminder of the intellectual climate in which it was published. Whils…
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and the Mobilization of Tory Women in Early Victorian England
This article addresses the historiographical neglect of tory women in the early Victorian period. The existence of a vibrant culture of female conservative letters, combined with the widespread participation of women in ultra-Protestant pressure-group politics, is suggestive of the neglected contribution women made to the revival of grass-roots toryism during these years. In particular, it is suggested that a consideration of the distinctive feat…
Murder and morality in Victorian Britain
Introduction
Gender and Change
Gender and Change: agency, chronology and periodisation ALEXANDRA SHEPARD & GARTHINE WALKER (Eds) Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 Pp. x + 294. £19.99. ISBN 978 1 4051 9227 9 This lively volume brings
The Riches and Treasures of Other Countries’
The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain
Ben Griffin’s new monograph raises an important, but curiously neglected, question: what were the motivations, ideas and arguments used by Victorian Members of Parliament to support or oppose women’s rights? Essentially, how did women’s rights legislation pass through parliament and what obstacles did it face? Griffin is an astute political historian, and this is a rigorous study based upon an impressive knowledge of parliamentary sources as well…
SAMANTHA Williams. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760-1834
Journal Article Samantha Williams. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760–1834. Get access Samantha Williams. Poverty, Gender and Life-Cycle under the English Poor Law, 1760–1834. (Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series.) London: Royal Historical Society, with Boydell Press, Rochester, N.Y. 2011. Pp. xiii, 190. $90.00. Kathryn Gleadle Kathryn Gleadle University of Oxford Search for other works by this auth…
The Imagined Communities of Women's History
This article reconsiders some of the emergent features of feminist history since 2001. It employs Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the ‘rhizome’—a root structure which grows in unpredictable and manifold directions—as a means to conceptualise the complicated intellectual shifts within the field. The article warns that in some respects there are signs that the progress of ‘women's history’ has begun to slow. The rhizome provides a radical metaphor…
Making Women's Histories
The Juvenile Enlightenment
This article explores the enthusiastic reception with which many young Britons greeted the French Revolution. In some cases this sparked intense debate about the politics of family life, as children and youths sought to apply revolutionary principles of equality and democracy to their own lives. This was not an isolated phenomenon which sprang up simply in response to the revolution itself, however. Rather, it was the sharpest demonstration of wh…
Space, Place and Gendered Identities
1. Introduction: Space, Place and Gendered Identities: feminist history and the spatial turn Kathryne Beebe, Angela Davis and Kathryn Gleadle 2. Sexuality in Heterotopia: time, space and love between women in the historic house Alison Oram 3. Making a Scene: struggles over lesbian place-making in anglophone Canada, 1964-1984 Liz Millward 4. Place and Power in Irish Farms at the End of the Nineteenth Century Katie Barclay 5 Making Space: English w…
Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850–1899, by Melanie Reynolds
"Infant Mortality and Working-Class Child Care, 1850–1899, by Melanie Reynolds." Women's History Review, 26(4), pp. 667–668
Global feminisms, c . 1870–1930
This ‘Viewpoint’ assesses some recent approaches to the study of feminisms across the globe during the c. 1870–1930 period. At a moment when historians are working towards the commemoration of women's partial enfranchisement in Britain in 1918, we consider the intellectual frameworks that most effectively celebrate this achievement whilst also situating the Act within its complex, global context. Reflecting on discussions held at a recent worksho…
Masculinity, Age and Life Cycle in the Age of Reform
The 1867 Reform Act created a polity in which, for 50 years, age and householding status were frequently more important than class in determining British men's right to vote. In the debates leading up to the act, both age and householder status were deployed to manage fears of greater democratisation. This essay traces some of the associative connections parliamentarians made between the sexual and family status of potential voters; their relatio…
Magazine Culture, Girlhood Communities, and Educational Reform in Late Victorian Britain
This will appear online only.This article argues for the importance of restoring girls’ aspirations and self-education to narratives of Victorian educational reform. Studies typically focus upon the efforts of professionals, politicians and campaigners in plotting the pioneering changes to girls’ education in the second half of the nineteenth century. Here it is contended that the success of these developments depended upon a new generation of gi…
Children Against Slavery
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, many contemporaries observed a striking phenomenon: that children were especially active in the boycotts of sugar produced by enslaved people. First-hand accounts often suggested that children's activism was unilateral and unmediated, whereas historians of British abolitionism have tended to assume that children were passive recipients of antislavery literature and adult influence. Engagin…
A Library of Our Own Compositions’
This article examines the Minervian Library, an extraordinary collection of children’s manuscript stories produced in mid-Victorian Orkney. Established in 1866 by sisters Mary and Clara Cowan and their cousin Isabella Bremner, the collaborative project had ambitions beyond its beginnings as a family literary endeavour: the girls envisaged a working library complete with membership and borrowing records. On offer to the ‘Library Damsels of the Min…
Sociology (18 works) · History (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)