{"product_id":"9783032007841","title":"The Ashurst Sisters: Nurturing Rebellion Across the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Ashurst Sisters: Nurturing Rebellion Across the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBelzer, Allison Scardino\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in a London household with few boundaries between private life and public engagement, Eliza, Caroline, Matilda, and Emilie Ashurst built sophisticated transnational networks advancing anti-slavery, Italian unification, and women's rights across Britain, Europe, and America. Through strategic marriages, literary production, and connections with revolutionaries like Giuseppe Mazzini, the family nurtured others to campaign for change. Spanning three generations (1791-1933), this book illuminates the understudied role of kinship in nineteenth-century reform movements. \u003cem\u003eThe Ashurst Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how middle-class Victorian women could shape international culture and political discourse through strategic networking and persistent activism. Despite their formal exclusion from power, they found new ways to influence society through translating innovative texts, fundraising for causes, and publishing calls for change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2025-10-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783032007841\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-032-00785-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 346\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44309932408972,"sku":"9783032007841","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032007841.jpg?v=1775067386","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032007841","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}