Diane Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History and Deputy Director at the Institute of Irish Studies of the University of Liverpool. A graduate of the Queen's University of Belfast she is a former Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's. She has also worked as a researcher for the Women's History Project. She is the author of Women in Ulster Politics: A History Not Yet Told; editor of The Minutes of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Executive Committee, 1911-40; co-editor of Coming into the light: the work, politics and religion of women in Ulster, 1840-1940; The Irish Women's History Reader and Irish Women's History.

• Introduction: Peeresses, patronage and power1. Frances Anne, third Marchioness of Londonderry and the creation of tradition: ‘They ought to make you Queen’2. ‘This is a place in history’: Theresa, sixth Marchioness ofLondonderry and the popularisation of politics 3. The last salon: Edith, seventh Marchioness of Londonderry’s ‘Ark’Conclusion: Living with the revolution: women and aristocratic decline

Diane Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History and Deputy Director at the Institute of Irish Studies of the University of Liverpool. A graduate of the Queen's University of Belfast she is a former Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's. She has also worked as a researcher for the Women's History Project. She is the author of Women in Ulster Politics: A History Not Yet Told; editor of The Minutes of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Executive Committee, 1911-40; co-editor of Coming into the light: the work, politics and religion of women in Ulster, 1840-1940; The Irish Women's History Reader and Irish Women's History.

• Introduction: Peeresses, patronage and power1. Frances Anne, third Marchioness of Londonderry and the creation of tradition: ‘They ought to make you Queen’2. ‘This is a place in history’: Theresa, sixth Marchioness ofLondonderry and the popularisation of politics 3. The last salon: Edith, seventh Marchioness of Londonderry’s ‘Ark’Conclusion: Living with the revolution: women and aristocratic decline

Diane Urquhart is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History and Deputy Director at the Institute of Irish Studies of the University of Liverpool. A graduate of the Queen's University of Belfast she is a former Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's. She has also worked as a researcher for the Women's History Project. She is the author of Women in Ulster Politics: A History Not Yet Told; editor of The Minutes of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Executive Committee, 1911-40; co-editor of Coming into the light: the work, politics and religion of women in Ulster, 1840-1940; The Irish Women's History Reader and Irish Women's History.

• Introduction: Peeresses, patronage and power1. Frances Anne, third Marchioness of Londonderry and the creation of tradition: ‘They ought to make you Queen’2. ‘This is a place in history’: Theresa, sixth Marchioness ofLondonderry and the popularisation of politics 3. The last salon: Edith, seventh Marchioness of Londonderry’s ‘Ark’Conclusion: Living with the revolution: women and aristocratic decline