Glenda Sluga, “Sexual Congress,” in History Today (September 2014, vol. 64, issue 9):
“…Half a century ago the Austrian historian Hilde Spiel recognised the Vienna Congress as one of the few historical events in which ‘a group of statesmen and politicians … laboured so extensively and decisively under the influence of women'…”
Glenda Sluga explains the influence of a remarkable group of women as Europe's elite gathered in Vienna in 1814.