Participant Info
- First Name
- Gail
- Last Name
- Savage
- Country
- United States
- State
- MD Maryland
- Glsavage@smcm.edu
- Affiliation
- St. Mary's College of Maryland
- Website URL
- Keywords
- British, Victorian, twentieth century, women, family, law
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
My research centers on family and the status of women in 19th and 20th century British history. I have ongoing projects on the history of divorce, world war II and transnational marriage, and women in the higher civil service after 1919.
- Recent Publications
“’A bridge in chaos’: Sir Cresswell Cresswell (1794-1863) and the English Divorce Court,” in ’A Time of Judgement’: The Operation and Representation of Judgement in Nineteenth-Century Culture (ed) Daniel Grey, et. al. (London: Routledge, 2018)
“Caroline Norton (1808-1877): The Injured Wife, Scandal, and the Politics of Feminist Memory,” in Brenda Ayres (ed) Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
“The Poisoned Apple: Beauty and the First Feminist Generation: Caroline Norton, Barbara Bodichon, George Elliot,” in Female Beauty: Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States Middle Ages to the Present, Cambridge Scholars, September, 2015
“They Would if They Could: Class, Gender and Popular Representation of English Divorce Litigation, 1858-1908,” Journal of Family History, April 2011
“…the instrument of an animal function:” Marital Rape and Sexual Cruelty in the Divorce Court, 1858-1908” in Politics of Domestic Authority, (ed) Lucy Delap, Macmillans, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=350077
“More than One Mrs. Mir Anwaruddin: Islamic Law and Christian Marriage in Early Twentieth Century London,” Journal of British Studies, April 2008
“’A State of Personal Danger’: Domestic Violence in England, 1903-1922.” In Assaulting the Past: Placing Violence in Historical Context, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, England, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Family, Gender, Law, Migration & Immigration, Women, World War II