Women in British Politics, 1760-1860: The Power of the Petticoat

About the Author KATHRYN GLEADLE holds a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Politics and Modern History at London Guildhall University. She is the author of The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movements, 1831-51. SARAH RICHARDSON is a Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Warwick. She is co-editor (with Anna Clark) of History of the Suffrage, 1760-1867. Product Description 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 life-style enable this book to challenge not only the historiography of Georgian and Victorian women, but also the nature of political history itself. Review '...combine[s] the best of the new research with theoretical sophistication...' - Anna Clark, Victorian Studies