Women in British Politics, 1760-1860

ELAINE CHALUS Lecturer, Bath Spa University College MATTHEW CRAGOE Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire CLARE MIDGLEY Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and Modern History, London Guildhall University SIMON MORGAN University of York ANNE STOTT Associate Lecturer, Open University NADIA VALMAN Research Fellow, Department of English, University of Southampton

This groundbreaking volume examines women's political involvement from a variety of innovative angles.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.