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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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	Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics Austen Series) by Jane Austen, Amanda Vickery (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 373,836 ratings — published 1814 — 631 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England 3.92 avg rating — 836 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England 3.87 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radio 4's History Of Private Life (BBC Radio 4) 3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700 - 1830 by John Styles (Editor), Amanda Vickery (Editor), Linzy Brekke (Contributor) 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gentleman's Daughter by Vickery, Amanda. (Yale University Press,2003) [Paperback] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: A BBC Drama Collection Including North and South, Wives and Daughters & More by Elizabeth Gaskell, Jodie Comer (Narrator), David Threlfall (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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