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Women in British Politics, 1780-1860

The Power of the Petticoat

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Editors:
  1. Kathryn Gleadle

    1. Department of Politics and Modern History, London Guildhall University, UK

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  2. Sarah Richardson

    1. Department of History, University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Kathryn Gleadle

  • Department of History, University of Warwick, UK

    Sarah Richardson

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women in British Politics, 1780-1860

  • Book Subtitle: The Power of the Petticoat

  • Editors: Kathryn Gleadle, Sarah Richardson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62989-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-23356-3Published: 02 December 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-62989-3Published: 30 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 179

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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