On the 19 March 1718, poet and novelist Jane Barker, in her capacity as an active Jacobite, wrote advising the exiled Duke of Ormond (in code) regarding a suitable time for a Jacobite invasion of Britain. Barker was a Roman…
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Women’s History Month: Mary Gawthorpe
On the 12 March 1973, Yorkshire working-class suffragist Mary Gawthorpe died at ninety-two, after a decade of widowhood, in a nursing home in New York (borough of Queen’s). In England she had been generally supposed to be already dead for…
Women’s History Month: Anne Halkett
On the 2 March 1652, the seventeenth-century diarist we know as Anne Halkett acquired that name when she married Sir James Halkett. She was thirty-three, and a serious Anglican who consulted a clergyman before entering into wedlock with a Presbyterian.…