Abstract
Recent scholarship has demonstrated that historical women were habitually used as gender role models for Victorian and Edwardian girls and young women, frequently in the attempt to promote domestic ideology and ‘traditional’ gender roles to middle-class audiences. This chapter explores how two Stuart women – Queen Henrietta Maria and Rachel Russell – were appropriated to this purpose, using biographies, individual and collective, and articles from magazines and periodicals, often exclusively aimed at girls and young women, as the key primary sources. It highlights the tensions – arising from their religious allegiances, political participation, and national identities – which underpinned representations of these two Stuart women as domestic role models.
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