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WOMEN IN ENGLAND. 39
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The Bkitons. The It The Is Days Difficul...
But the broad " outlines can be filled up when we look upon her iti _connexion with the lawscustomsand institutionsof which we
have endeavoured to give some , account , . Cartismandua , is stated by Tacitus to have been Queen in her own right over the Brigantes . She
was descended from a long * line of royal ancestors , and was famous dfor . her power and wealth . She married Cunobelinus , one of the
most powerful of the British princes , and must have brought him , as her dowerthis principalityfor he is stated to have reigned
,, , over the united tribes of the Brigantes , Trinobantes , and Dobuni . On his deathCartismandua resumed her independent position ,
, -continuing to reign over her tribe , while the rest of her husband ' s dominions were divided between his two sons by a former marriage
, _CJaractacus and Togodumnus . Dissensions ensued . On the invasion of the Romans under Claudius , the two princes bravely
opposed their country ' s foe ; but the queen early made terms with the invader , and carried treachery so far , that , when Caractacus
was defeated , and fled to her for shelter , she delivered him up in chains to the Emperor , receiving for her reward a large accession of territory and treasure . In the meantime Cartismandua had
contracted a second marriage with Venusius , Prince over the Huiciiwho had already entered into alliance with Rome . " But "
in the , words of Tacitus , _" corrupted by her great prosperity , she , abandoned herself to luxury , and , despising her husband , Venusius ,
she advanced her armour-bearer , Veloeetius , to his place , and declared him king . This flagitious action proved the ruin of
herself and family ; for her subjects , the Brigantes , espousing the cause of her injured husband , she was reduced to the greatest distress ,
and implored the protection of the Romans . We sent an army to her relief , which rescued her person , and fought several battles in
her cause ; but she was at length obliged to leave her kingdom in the The possession name of of Boadicea Venusius . " calls an imagefamiliar to us from
up , childhood , of something between a witch and a virago , standing upon her chariot , brandishing a spear , and invoking vengeance
on the Romans . But if we take a nearer view of this Celtic Queen , our admiration increases as we approachand the simple record of
, her life is full of truer pathos than the classic tragedy of Glover or the more impassioned lines of Cowper . If it be true that
the Laureate is now engaged upon a poem of which she is the and heroin to e , we her may misfortunes at length . see Pier justice name done is s to upposed her greatness to be
derived from the Celtic word Buddig ( Victory ) , Romanised into tribe Boadicea of . the Her Iceni husb who and , inhabited Prasutogus the , rei eastern gned over shores the of powerful Britain
and were thus exposed , , more than others , to the rapacity of the , heir Romans to . his On accumulated his death-bed treasures , Prasutagu , conjointl s named y with the Emperor his own Nero two
daughters , in expectation of procuring by this means Nero ' s pro-
Women In England. 39
WOMEN IN ENGLAND . 39
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/39/
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