![]() She-intelligencers had two primary advantages over their male counterparts: they were less likely to be suspected of espionage and, should they happen to be caught, they rarely if ever faced execution and were generally released after a short imprisonment. Royalist she-intelligencers were more numerous and generally of higher social status than their Parliamentarian rivals. With the onset of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, however, pragmatism began to trump polemic, and women began to be employed as spies and to create their own networks. As a result of this, they were generally not employed as intelligencers. ![]() In seventeenth-century Britain, women were considered incapable of independent political thought as well as lacking courage and intellectual application. ![]()
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