Women in British Politics, 1780-1860

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: The Petticoat in Politics: Women and Authority

   • Kathryn Gleadle, Sarah Richardson

   Pages 1-18

3. Women, Electoral Privilege and Practice in the Eighteenth Century

   • Elaine Chalus

   Pages 19-38

4. Patriotism and Providence: the Politics of Hannah More

   • Anne Stott

   Pages 39-55

5. ‘Well-neighboured Houses’: the Political Networks of Elite Women, 1780–1860

   • Sarah Richardson

   Pages 56-73

6. From Supporting Missions to Petitioning Parliament: British Women and the Evangelical Campaign against Sati in India, 1813–30

   • Clare Midgley

   Pages 74-92

7. Women Writers and the Campaign for Jewish Civil Rights in Early Victorian England

   • Nadia Valman

   Pages 93-114

8. Domestic Economy and Political Agitation: Women and the Anti-Corn Law League, 1839–46

   • Simon Morgan

   Pages 115-133

9. ‘Our Several Spheres’: Middle-class Women and the Feminisms of Early Victorian Radical Politics

   • Kathryn Gleadle

   Pages 134-152

10. ‘Jenny Rules the Roost’: Women and Electoral Politics, 1832–68

    • Matthew Cragoe

    Pages 153-168

11. Back Matter

    Pages 169-179

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This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles. In addition to exploring literary sources and women's contribution to electoral processes, pressure group politics are examined in depth (including Jewish civil rights and the campaigns against the Corn Laws and Indian widow-burning). The attention to neglected aspects of women's political activity, such as religion, domesticity, European nationalism, empire, and lifestyle enable this book to challenge not only the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women, but also the nature of political history itself.

• Department of Politics and Modern History, London Guildhall University, UK

  Kathryn Gleadle

• Department of History, University of Warwick, UK

  Sarah Richardson

Kathryn Gleadle holds a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Politics and Modern History at London Guildhall University.

Sarah Richardson is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Warwick.

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