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Exhibitions at The Research Libraries Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic EraFrom April 8, 2005 through July 30, 2005 See related Online Exhibition.  Before Victoria, drawn from the Pforzheimer, Berg, and Print Collections of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library, will bring together literary and cultural history, and explore the transformation of British society through the lives of a number of remarkable women, some well-known today and some almost totally forgotten. The revolution in the lives of British women during the early 19th century was not the one that Mary Wollstonecraft would have ordered, but it certainly took place. In the half-century or so before Victoria came to the throne in 1837, a woman alone taking an active public role became unacceptable to the majority of her compatriots, male and female. This did not stop women of the Romantic period from making contributions of surprising magnitude and number to Britain’s public culture -- contributions that have too often been overlooked. |