Aristocracy, Temperance and Social Reform: The Life of Lady Henry Somerset 9781350172586

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Автор: Olwen Claire Niessen
Название: Aristocracy, Temperance and Social Reform: The Life of Lady Henry Somerset
ISBN: 9781350172586
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Благотворительные организации, волонтёрство и благотворительность

ISBN-10: 1350172588
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.37 кг.
Дата издания: 23.07.2020
Серия: Biography
Язык: English
Размер: 216 x 140 x 17
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Ключевые слова: Biography: historical, political & military,Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women,HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women'
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Описание: The visionary achievements of Isabella (Isabel) Caroline Somerset (Lady Henry Somerset), like the temperance cause she led, have undeservedly faded into obscurity. By her contemporaries she was feted for her social activism, and at the time of her death in 1921, Isabel Somersets vigorous reform efforts were acclaimed by humanitarian, political and social-reform organizations and the labour movement. She was internationally recognized for her contributions to the temperance cause, social reform and womens rights. The failure of her traumatic marriage to Lord Henry Charles Somerset after revelation of his homosexual affairs, and the ensuing child-custody battle and consequent ostracism by Society, combined with a profound religious experience, effected her metamorphosis from an aristocratic socialite into a temperance and social reform activist.Beginning with local temperance and philanthropic work, Isabel Somerset progressed to become president of the British Womens Temperance Association, which she gradually transformed from a single-issue organization into one committed to womens rights and a broad range of social initiatives; the BWTA became a potent pressure-group force in the politically influential, late-nineteenth-century temperance movement.Discouraged by the existing punitive, futile methods used to combat alcoholism, she founded a farm colony for female inebriates and employed a pioneering rehabilitation programme based upon therapeutic treatment and life-style changes. Through her close co-operation with American temperance icon Frances Willard, Isabel Somerset strengthened the bonds between the Anglo-American and international temperance and womens movements. Isabel Somersets activism did not go unchallenged. In 1893 she successfully overcame the BWTA social conservatives attempts to unseat her, and thereafter expanded the membership to hitherto unprecedented levels. In 1897-8 her position on state-regulated prostitution in India created a controversy which reverberated beyond the Association to encompass its sister organizations and proved temporarily detrimental to Somersets reputation and credibility. Isabel survived this disputation, retaining her presidency and succeeding Willard as president of the Worlds Womans Christian Temperance Union following her death in 1898.Isabel Somerset was a devout Christian, compassionate humanitarian, temperance activist, committed social reformer and womens rights campaigner, a charismatic leader and eloquent orator.Her roles of reformer and womens advocate, as revealed anew in the pages of this biography, place her in the pantheon of notable Victorian female reformers.

Aristocracy, Temperance and Social Reform: The Life of Lady Henry Somerset, Olwen Claire Niessen