@inbook{7033c9a6ce1f408eac3f33f3d2c9a1c2,
title = "My love to war is going: Women and Song in the Napoleonic Era",
author = "Karen McAulay and Robertson-Kirkland, {B E}",
note = "Middling-rank Georgian women were encouraged to be polite, genteel and accomplished in their ornaments, namely piano playing and singing. For long enough, our perception – perhaps influenced by period novels and popular dramatizations – has been that women{\textquoteright}s engagement in political debate concerning the naval battles that surged on the seas, and even composing one{\textquoteright}s own music were very much discouraged. And yet a closer investigation of the evidence reveals a very different picture indeed. From the instructional materials that formed part of the well-bred young woman{\textquoteright}s education, to the contemporary evidence in the shape of the diaries belonging to two well-educated sisters from St Andrews in Scotland, not to mention an examination of some of the music that young women sang and also composed, we are able to construct a much more accurate picture of a middling-ranked woman{\textquoteright}s reaction to the times in which she lived.",
year = "2018",
month = nov,
language = "English",
isbn = "147389980X",
series = "Trafalgar Chronicle",
pages = "202",
booktitle = "Trafalgar Chronicle",
}