Moving Beyond Boundaries: Discovering Georgian Women.
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Moving Beyond Boundaries:Discovering Georgian Women
What do we know about the Georgian Period?
Activity
What do you know about Georgian Britain? (Guesses are okay! What comes to mind?)
Working in pairs, write 5 things down in 5 minutes.
Georgian Women in the Media
How does the media represent Georgian Women?
What is Advice Literature?
A written piece (usually a book, pamphlet, or article) meant to instruct an individual how to behave, what to wear, etc.
In the case of women in the Eighteenth Century, advice literature was a genre intended to “form” the perfect and ideal woman.
What kinds of things might they have recommended?Do things like this exist today?
Activity
Guessing Game:
Listen to some pieces of advice given to women from various sorts of sources.
Is what you’re hearing from the 21st or 18th century?
Activity
On your posters, describe an “ideal” Georgian woman.
Use pictures, words, mind-mapping, whatever you prefer to get your ideas across!
(10 minutes)
Take a Break!
Activity
Quick-fire Challenge! We’ll present for 5 minutes on a specific topic
that affects the lives of Georgian women.
After our 5 minutes are up, you get to work on your posters for five minutes, responding to
what you just heard.
Get ready, set…!
Home Life
Five Minutes!
What was “real” about a Georgian woman’s
home life?
Write/draw/mind-map on your poster!
Education
Five Minutes!
What was “real” about a Georgian woman’s
education?
Write/draw/mind-map on your poster!
The Wider World
Religion and Politics
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
Elizabeth Fry
Politics
Five Minutes
What was “real” about a Georgian woman’s
interaction with politics and religion?
Write/draw/mind-map on your poster!
Feedback Time
• Have your perceptions about Georgian women changed, and if so, how?
• Did you find anything you learned today surprising?
• How do you think being a woman in the eighteenth century compares to being a woman today?