Women's Agency During the Civil War

For most women, restoring the monarchy was assumed to restore all of the pre civil war structures and authority that had come previously. A lot of women spent a lot, many years petitioning on behalf of either er, you know, an injured or a dead family member. The idea of state mistresses is something that e if charles the second's reign really epitomizes in a way that the english monarchy hasn't seen. And one often finds in some of the fears of a descent back to civil war expressed by contemporaries, among men,. There is a sort of fear that, oh, my goodness, in that parliament of women, as it was often described.