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Liberal Hearts and Coronets : The Lives and Times of Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon and John Campbell Gordon, the Aberdeens

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Scottish aristocrats John Campbell Gordon (1847-1934) and Ishbel Marjoribanks Gordon (1857-1939), known as the Aberdeens, rejected both revolution and reaction in their political careers.

The aristocratic progressivism and egalitarian marriage of these fervent liberals confounded both contemporaries and historians.

John, as viceroy of Ireland and governor-general of Canada, was a notable ally of feminists, workers, and Irish Home Rulers.

Ishbel, his viceregal companion and the long-time president of the International Council of Women, was a liberal feminist and Home Ruler whose commitments stirred up even more controversy. Superbly written and informed by decades of research, Liberal Hearts and Coronets is the first biography to treat John Campbell Gordon as seriously as his better-known wife. Examining the Aberdeens' remarkable careers as landlords, philanthropists, and international progressives, Veronica Strong-Boag casts the twilight of the British aristocracy in an entirely new light.

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University of Toronto Press
144262602X / 9781442626027
Paperback / softback
23/02/2015
Canada
384 pages, 15 Illustrations, unspecified
152 x 229 mm, 600 grams