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In four pages this paper answers five questions pertaining to English history from 1800 to 1840 and include Queen Caroline’s affaire and its impact on women, politics, and society; the Chartist movement objectives and participation of women; most important rapid changes in Great Britain during this time period; and classical liberalism of the 1830s. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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society? The early part of the nineteenth century (1800 to 1840) was a time of considerable upheaval in Great Britain. The years following the
Napoleonic Wars created a prolonged period of economic hardship that culminated in middle-class political activists and both sexes that comprised the working class to form alliances dedicated to reform of
the parliamentary system (Kent 156). Conservative male reformers sought reform of existing institutions to combat corruption while radical men and women wanted changes to support the notion of equality
of all classes and genders through "universal suffrage" (Kent 157). The catalyst proved to be what historians have dubbed the Queen Caroline Affair, which referred to the 1820 scandal
involving newly crowned King George IV and his estranged wife Caroline. After years of mistreatment, Caroline had been living as a European exile, but when her husband became King
she returned to claim her rightful title as Queen (Kent 159). George promptly responded by initiating divorce proceedings and imploring the House of Lords to issue a Bill of
Pains and Penalties that charged Caroline with adultery and officially rescinded her status as Queen (Kent 159). This open marital warfare resulted in a huge public outcry against the
King. Reformers and radicals alike encouraged dialogue regarding gender oppression and the excesses of the tyrannical monarch and elitist social class (Kent 159). The radicals in particular used
the scandal to publicize its own agenda, with comparisons made between the smear campaign the King was conducting against Caroline and government corruption (Kent 159). The Queen Caroline affair
began a lengthy battle between the old-world aristocratic class of titled landowners and the newly-formed working class that would last throughout much of the nineteenth century in Great Britain. 2)
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