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… waters for creating consensus, discussing the issues of the day, making useful political contacts, or even requesting patronage, pensions or preferments for themselves or their clients. Moreover, it is important to remember that much of this networking, solicitation, manoeuvring, and negotiation — be it about policy or patronage , factional alliances, or elections — took place in mixed-sex social arenas that included women, or were hosted … Historical Journal (vol. 43, n° 3, 2000), pp. 669–97. Although women were prevented by custom from voting, holding most patronage appointments or taking seats in the Lords (even if they were peeresses in their own rights), politics ran …
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