Politics and Society: The Journals of Lady Knightley of by Peter Gordon
By Peter Gordon
Louisa Mary, girl Knightley of Fawnsley, used to be a girl of surprisingly large pursuits, specifically within the box of public affairs. In an age while few possibilities arose for ladies to make contributions to political and feminist concerns, woman Knightley used to be an early pioneer of either factors. Denied the vote as a lady, she was once a number one recommend of the crusade for constitutional, non-militant motion to accomplish the franchise, a reason which she persevered to espouse till her demise in 1913.Her later journals, written with heat and humour, supply a desirable photo of politics and society in England at a time of the most important switch. Her journals offer many insights into rural politics following the Reform Acts of 1884 and 1885.
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NH, 14 Aug. 1886, p. 6. Politics and society 32 Throughout her married life Louisa was a regular visitor to the local workhouse at Daventry. Like many other women of her generation, she was concerned that the welfare of a substantial number of old and young women continually passing through the wards, the care of girls, and the nurseries full of children, was determined by all-male Boards of Guardians. From 1872, women were admitted as Poor Law Guardians, the first to be elected being Miss Martha Merrington at South Kensington in 1875.
185. The Gentlewoman, 4 April 1891, p. 450. 186. LMK, 7 July 1884, K 2901. 187. LMK, 31 Dec. 1891, K 2906. Politics and society 36 musical taste was wide and she was a good judge of talent. In September 1910, she attended a Promenade concert, ‘all Wagner and most splendidly given. 188 Her account of The Ring’ cycle which she witnessed at Bayreuth in 1899 is a detailed one and she was not deterred from attending concerts of what was then new music, such as Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathetique’ Symphony. Architecture was another of her great passions from an early age and with Rainald visited most of the major architectural sites in Europe.
128 She also relished the story of how the Gages inherited Hengrave Hall, the magnificent Tudor mansion in her native county of Suffolk. Lady Penelope Darcy, granddaughter of the builder, Sir Thomas Kytson, had had the estate settled on her by her mother in 1643. Penelope had three suitors at the same time, Sir George Trenchard, Sir John Gage and Sir William Hervey, and promised in time to marry all three. Her first husband, Trenchard, died and shortly afterwards she married Sir John Gage, by whom she had nine children.