The questions scholars now study include : `` the Revolution , war , nationalism , empire , class , ` improvement ' ( of the estate ) , the clergy , town versus ( against ) country , abolition , the professions , female emancipation ; whether her politics were Tory , Whig , or radical ; whether she was a conservative or a revolutionary , or occupied ( kept ) a reformist position between these extremes '' . The questions scholars now investigate involve : `` the Revolution , war , nationalism , empire , class , ` improvement ' ( of the estate ) , the clergy , town versus country , abolition , the professions , female emancipation ; whether her politics were Tory , Whig , or radical ; whether she was a conservative or a revolutionary , or occupied a reformist position between these extremes '' .