#  Women & Public Policy Prgm: From ‘Right to Rule’ to ‘Right to Reign’? The Problem of Female Monarchy in Victorian Britain 

 



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 **October 6, 2016** 

 11:40AM - 01:00PM EDT 

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 **WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, Harvard Kennedy School, Eliot Street, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

**Arianne Chernock**, Associate Professor Department of History, Boston University

Historians have long suspected that Queen Victoria’s gender played a role in the rise of constitutional (e.g. ceremonial) monarchy in 19th-century Britain. But what was the nature of this role? In this seminar, Arianne Chernock takes on this question through an archival-based approach by exploring Victoria’s centrality to the early women’s rights movement in Britain – especially in inspiring women to demand the right to vote. Chernock argues that recognizing Victoria’s role in the women’s rights movement allows us to see the shift towards a more restricted Crown as an attempt to contain radical thinking about women, agency, and power to create a more democratic and transparent British state.



 

 



 

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