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The Ladies of Londonderry - Women and Political Patronage (Paperback)
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The Ladies of Londonderry - Women and Political Patronage (Paperback)
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Against a backdrop of increasing democratic freedom and the
associated process of aristocratic decline, this book examines the
political influence of the leading Tory hostesses, the
Marchionesses of Londonderry. Over one hundred and fifty years,
from 1800-1959, these women were patrons and confidantes to key
political figures such as Disraeli, Bonar Law, Edward Carson and
Ramsay MacDonald. By the late nineteenth century upper-class women
were at the height of their prowess, exerting political sway by
private means whilst exploiting more public avenues of political
work: canvassing, addressing meetings and leading the new
associations established in an attempt to educate a mass
electorate. At that time this hybrid of private and public
aristocratic politicking aroused little criticism but, by the
interwar period, the alleged hold that the 7th Marchioness of
Londonderry, Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, had over MacDonald
prompted widespread criticism of her role as the 'Mother' of the
National Government. The Ladies of Londonderry offers the first
examination of the powerful political hostesses of the Anglo-Irish
establishment and sheds considerable light on the workings of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics.
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