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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Part 1

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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The Whig, Not the Suffragette?

The term whig was actually a term that was applied to horse thieves before it became a political party. So as to papa's personal self, here is a description of him from a contemporary he hath a fine estate. He makes a good figure of black complexion, well made, and not yet forty years old. Although we can't see a portrait of him, the wig just is so distracting. That's w i g, not w h i g. Yes. Well, he was the recipient of ever increasing titles, offices, responsibilities. He's a man about town. But what he did not have time for, nor interest in, was the upbringing of his children. Honestly,

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