My objective is to explore the cultural memory constructed around this heroic character, its meanings, and its sentimental and symbolic value through the Spanish military literature of the conquest of America. I pretend to analyze the image construction of the conqueror of Mexico Hernán Cortés, as well as its cultural and political importance in the late eighteenth century. Most importantly, her canvassing achieved results and the eventual New Interest victory owed, at least in part, to her efforts. Confident and characterful, she was ideally suited to the rumbustious, personal politics of the age. Driven by ideology rather than by family interests, she used her age, rank, sex and connections, to political advantage.

Propelled into action by sheer frustration with the poor planning and lacklustre campaigning that had marked the New Interest campaign in the 1751 election, Lady Susan put her, not inconsiderable, energy into securing a victory for the New Interest. This detailed examination of Lady Susan's electioneering illustrates the possibilities for electoral involvement at mid-century that were available to a woman of rank and spirit who was determined to make a difference. Undaunted and irrepressible, she not only continued to campaign, but also turned the criticism back on the Old Interest, effectively neutralising it. As one of the most memorable campaigners for the New Interest whigs in the Oxfordshire election of 1754, Lady Susan Keck inevitably became the subject of press ridicule and criticism.

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