A magyarországi polgári nőmozgalom és Erzsébet királyné
The Hungarian bourgeois women’s movement and Queen Elizabeth

Summary/Abstract: In my paper, I present the turning points in the development of the Hungarian bourgeois women’s movement in the era of Queen Elizabeth, more precisely from the late 1840s to the mid-1890s. To illustrate this issue, it is essential to outline at the beginning of the study the political, economic, and social changes that fundamentally influenced the history of the women’s movement in the 19th century. After that, I describe the main stages in the development of the bourgeois wing of the women’s movement. In the second part of the paper, I draw on these to reflect on Elizabeth’s relationship with bourgeois women’s associations in Hungary through a few examples. In addition to this, I argue that Elisabeth followed and supported the activities of a number of women’s associations through various means. To this, I rely on association documents relating to women’s bourgeois associations and different institutions operated by them, as well as the official journals of the associations and other contemporary periodical press products.

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