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Amanda Vickery


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Preston (Lancashire), The United Kingdom
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Amanda Vickery is a British historian and television presenter.

She graduated from the former Bedford College, London (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London) where she completed her PhD in Modern History.

Presently, Vickery is professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London and has held academic posts at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of York. Her academic interests encompass the Late Modern period from the seventeenth century to the present with a strong emphasis on the Georgian period in England.

She has written widely on social history, literature, the history of romance and the home, politics, law and crime with an emphasis on women's studies and feminism.

In 1998 she published her first ...more

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“Do not marry a very young man, you know not how he may turn out; it is a lottery at best but it is a very just remark that “it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's scorn”.”
― Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
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“In 1790s ladies' debating societies were still deliberating ‘In the Marriage State, which constitutes the greater Evil, Love without Money, or Money without Love?’ 12”
― Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
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“As Pollock has astutely observed ‘it is uncoerced consent which lies at the heart of our marital system not unconstrained choice’. 10”
― Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
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