LEADER 04516nam 22007095 450 001 9911035155903321 005 20251029120425.0 010 $a9783032007858$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783032007841 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-032-00785-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32383078 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32383078 035 $a(CKB)41986557400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-032-00785-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9941986557400041 100 $a20251029d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Ashurst Sisters $eNurturing Rebellion Across the Nineteenth Century /$fby Allison Scardino Belzer 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (404 pages) 225 1 $aHistory Series 311 08$aPrint version: Belzer, Allison Scardino The Ashurst Sisters Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9783032007841 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: ?Daring Rebels? -- Part I The Foundations of Rebellion -- Chapter 2. William H. and Elizabeth Brown Ashurst -- Chapter 3. Domestic Radicals: The Muswell Hill Brigade -- Part II Early Campaigns (1840s?1850s) -- Chapter 4. American Alliances and the World Anti-Slavery Convention, 1840 -- Chapter 5. Rebelling With Mazzini in the Struggle for Italy -- Chapter 6. Eliza and George Sand: Rebellion in Translation -- Part III Expanding Horizons (1850s?1880s) -- Chapter 7. Visions of America -- Chapter 8. Achieving Italian Unification -- Chapter 9. Redefining British Women?s Economic and Social Equality -- Chapter 10. Fighting for British Women?s Suffrage and Political Equality -- Part IV Last Waves of Alliance -- Chapter 11. Madame Venturi: ?A Rebel to the Last? -- Chapter 12. Into the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 13. Conclusions. 330 $aThis group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in a London household with few boundaries between private life and public engagement, Eliza, Caroline, Matilda, and Emilie Ashurst built sophisticated transnational networks advancing anti-slavery, Italian unification, and women's rights across Britain, Europe, and America. Through strategic marriages, literary production, and connections with revolutionaries like Giuseppe Mazzini, the family nurtured others to campaign for change. Spanning three generations (1791-1933), this book illuminates the understudied role of kinship in nineteenth-century reform movements. The Ashurst Sisters demonstrates how middle-class Victorian women could shape international culture and political discourse through strategic networking and persistent activism. Despite their formal exclusion from power, they found new ways to influence society through translating innovative texts, fundraising for causes, and publishing calls for change. Allison Scardino Belzer is Professor of History at Georgia Southern University, USA, specializing in modern Italy and Britain. She published Women and the Great War: Femininity under Fire in Italy with Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. 410 0$aHistory Series 606 $aWomen$xHistory 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aSocial history 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x1492- 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aWomen's History / History of Gender 606 $aLiterary History 606 $aCultural History 606 $aSocial History 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x1492-. 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 14$aWomen's History / History of Gender. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aCultural History. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aHistory of Modern Europe. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 676 $a305.4094109034 700 $aBelzer$b Allison Scardino$01853705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911035155903321 996 $aThe Ashurst Sisters$94450334 997 $aUNINA