Course: Women in Britain since 1750 - bmc.HIST.B292.001.F26

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- Select activity Announcements
  
  Announcements Forum
- Select activity Mary Poppins "Life I Lead"
  
  Mary Poppins "Life I Lead" URL
  
  excerpt from Mary Poppins 1964 "The Life I Lead"
- Select activity Sister Suffragettes from Mary Poppins
  
  Sister Suffragettes from Mary Poppins URL
  
  excerpt from Mary Poppins 1964 "Sister Suffragettes"
- Select activity A British Nanny, Mary Poppins
  
  A British Nanny, Mary Poppins URL
  
  excerpt from Mary Poppins 1964
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- Select activity Wollstonecraft, Vindication, Intro
  
  Wollstonecraft, Vindication, Intro URL
  
  · Mary Wollstonecraft, "Introduction," A Vindication of the Rights of Women with Stricture on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)
- Select activity Phillips, ch 2
  
  Phillips, ch 2 File PDF
  
  Nicola Phillips, ch. 2, “Legal fictions vs. legal facts: Common law, coverture and
  married women in business” (pp. 23-47)
  
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- Select activity Montgomery
  
  Montgomery File
  
  Fiona Montgomery, Women's Rights: Struggles and Feminism in Britain c. 1770-1970 (2006) chapter 1, "Women and the Law," pp. 1-32
- Select activity Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753
  
  Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753 URL
  
  1753: 26 Geo. 2 c.33: Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act
  aka Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act 1753, Alsatia
- Select activity Blake illustrations 1791 for Wollstonecraft children's book
  
  Blake illustrations 1791 for Wollstonecraft children's book URL
  
  Illustration by William Blake for Mary Wollstonecraft's "Original Stories" (1791)
- Select activity BBC September 14, 2016
  
  BBC September 14, 2016 URL
  
  "The love story that shocked the world," BBC News
- Select activity excerpts from Wollstonecraft
  
  excerpts from Wollstonecraft File PPTX
  
  Sylvana Tomaselli, ed., Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men (CUP 1995)
  
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  Takeaway 1 Forum
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  revised syllabus File PDF
  
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Week 3: September 15 & 17

· Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose, "Introduction: being at home with the empire," in Hall and Rose, eds., At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (2006): 1-31

Somerset v Steward, 1772 12 Geo. 3 King's Benvh, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield

· Catherine Hall, et al., Legacies of British Slave Ownership (2014) excerpts

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- Select activity Hall and Rose, Intro, 2006 At Home with Empire
  
  Hall and Rose, Intro, 2006 At Home with Empire File PDF
  
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- Select activity Legacies of British Slave-ownership
  
  Legacies of British Slave-ownership URL
  
  Legacies of British Slave-ownership - UCL Department of History 2018
- Select activity Somerset case 1772, incl Mansfield decision
  
  Somerset case 1772, incl Mansfield decision URL
  
  Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499
  
  Apologies: the link that I had used to the text of the above no longer works. This Wikipedia link gives background and also quotes the decision and is worth your while to read: the texts cited from the case and from the decision, especially.
  
  Thanks to Scarlett for letting me know that the link wasn't working
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- Select activity NYT article re Mokha in Yemen and earlymodern coffee trade
  
  NYT article re Mokha in Yemen and earlymodern coffee trade URL
  
  Jonathan Wolfe, "Why Mokha, Historical Port that Shaped the Coffee Trade..." The New York Times, September 12, 2026
  
  You may need to access article through Tripod or college-supplied subscription to the newspaper
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Amma Assante, dir., Belle (2013)

Michel Rolphe Trouillot, “The Power in the Story
- Select activity Trouillot, Silencing the Past
  
  Trouillot, Silencing the Past URL
  
  https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/discovery/search?tab=LibraryCatalog&vid=01TRI_INST:BMC&search_scope=BMC_Catalog&op=Search&query=any,contains,silencing%20the%20past
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· Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor.[Thomas Pringle] (London: 1831) Electronic edition: University on North Carolina at Chapel Hill

v Takeaway 4 due by midnight WEDNESDAYon Moodle

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  Takeaway 4 Forum
  
  Cri
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· Iain B. Macdonald, dir., Mansfield Park (2007) CLASS on THURSDAY MEETS IN CANADAY****

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- Select activity Mary Prince 1831
  
  Mary Prince 1831 URL
  
  Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. (London: 1831). University of North Carolina Press, 2017 [Project Muse, electronic edition]
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Bentinck, "Minute on Sati," 1829

·Lata Mani, "Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial IndiaAuthor(s): Lata ManiReviewed work(s):Source: Cultural Critique, No. 7, The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse II (Autumn,1987), pp. 119-156
- Select activity First Sight Period Pieces proposal
  
  First Sight Period Pieces proposal Assignment
  
  Opened: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  v First Sight: Period Pieces proposal: What, when, why, how?
  
  OCTOBER 19, Monday, midnight on Moodle
- Select activity Bentinck "Minute" on sati 1829
  
  Bentinck "Minute" on sati 1829 File PDF
  
  Bentinck "Minute" on sati, 1829
  
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- Select activity Mani, 1987
  
  Mani, 1987 File PDF
  
  Lata Mani, "Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial IndiaAuthor(s): Lata ManiReviewed work(s):Source: Cultural Critique, No. 7, The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse II (Autumn,1987), pp. 119-156
  
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  week 7 Critique 1 Forum
  
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· Pandita Ramabai, Meera Kosambi, trans., Pandita Ramabai’s American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889, 2003)

v CRITIQUE 2 due on Moodle by midnight on Wednesday
- Select activity Pandita Ramabai American Encounters Project Muse
  
  Pandita Ramabai American Encounters Project Muse URL
  
  Ramabai, Pandita, and Meera Kosambi. Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/3922.
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  critique 2 Forum
  
  ·      Excerpts, Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)
  
  ·      Excerpts, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (1851)
  
  ·      Anti-Caste, edited by Catherine Impey 1888
  
  https://www-slavery-amdigital-co-uk.proxy.brynmawr.edu/documents/detail/2303116
  
  ·      Caroline Bressey, selections
  
  ·      Excerpts, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Chicago 2020)
  
  v CRITIQUE 5 due by midnight on Wednesday, October 25 on Moodle
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CRITIQUE 1 due by midnight on Wednesday CRITIQUE 2 due by midnight on Wednesday on Moodle
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Week 10: November 10 & 12
Excerpts, Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844) OR Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884, 1891)

·      Anti-Caste, edited by Catherine Impey 1888

https://www-slavery-amdigital-co-uk.proxy.brynmawr.edu/documents/detail/2303116

·      Caroline Bressey, selections

·      Excerpts, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Chicago 2020)

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  Impey, Bressey, Anti-Caste Forum
  
  Impey, Bressey, Anti-Caste
- Select activity "The Forgotten Woman"
  
  "The Forgotten Woman" File PDF
  
  from The Independent, July 12, 2021, The forgotten woman who took on white supremacy_ When Catherine Impey started a radical newspaper
  
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- Select activity Anti-Caste
  
  Anti-Caste File PDF
  
  Anti-Caste, 1892
  
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- Select activity Caroline Bressey
  
  Caroline Bressey URL
  
  , Caroline Bressey"Reporting oppression: mapping racial prejudice in Anti-Caste and Fraternity," Journal of Historical Geography 38 z92012)
  
  1888-1895"
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Week 11: November17 & 19
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Week 12: November 24 [Nov 26 Turkey Day]
· Carby, Part Five: Legacies (pp. 261-342)

Ø Cite your sources: annotated bibliography for Period Pieces Due by Monday November 27 by 5 p.m.
- Select activity Period Pieces Part 2: Cite your sources
  
  Period Pieces Part 2: Cite your sources Assignment
  
  Opened: Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Due: Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 12:00 AM
  
  Ø Cite your sources: annotated bibliography for Period Pieces Due by Monday November 27 by 5 p.m.
  
  · Carby, Part Five: Legacies (pp. 261-342)
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14. December 12 & 14
Presentations of Period Pieces in class

*Last day of classes
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- Select activity "Royal Weddings, Then and Now, The New Yorker
  
  "Royal Weddings, Then and Now, The New Yorker URL
  
  The New Yorker, May 19, 2018
- Select activity Amma Assante, dir., A United Kingdom
  
  Amma Assante, dir., A United Kingdom URL
  
  Amma Assante, dir., A United Kingdom 2017
- Select activity Jane Austen History of England
  
  Jane Austen History of England File PDF
  
  · Jane Austen's History of England, November, 179, The History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st By a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian To Miss Austen, eldest daughter of the Revd. George Austen, this Work is inscribed with all due respect by The Author NB. There will be very few Dates in this History Internet Archive
  
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- Select activity Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929) excerpt
  
  Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929) excerpt File PDF
  
  Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929)
  
  Conclusion to lectures delivered at Newnham and Girton Colleges, Cambridge University, 1928 entitled, “Women and Fiction.”
  
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  week 1 ppt File
  
  week 1 ppt Tuesday
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All assigned work due by 12:30 p.m. December 22 including final draft of Period Piece site analysis
- Select activity final draft period pieces
  
  final draft period pieces Assignment
  
  Opened: Wednesday, August 12, 2026, 1:00 AM
  
  Due: Saturday, August 15, 2026, 1:30 PM

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1753: 26 Geo. 2 c.33: Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act

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