List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: The Petticoat in Politics: Women and Authority

Kathryn Gleadle

Sarah Richardson

Women, Electroal Privilege and Practice in the Eighteenth Century

Elaine Chalus

Patriotism and Providence: the Politics of Hannah More

Anne Stott

`Well-neighboured Houses': the Political Networks of Elite Women, 1780--1860

Sarah Richardson

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

Clare Midgley

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

Nadia Valman

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

Simon Morgan

`Our Several Spheres': Middle-class Women and the Feminisms of Early Victorian Radical Politics

Kathryn Gleadle

`Jenny Rules the Roost': Women and Electoral Politics, 1832--68

Matthew Cragoe

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