Chapter 1 Introduction: The Petticoat in Politics: Women and Authority

Chapter 2 Women, Electoral Privilege and Practice in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3 Patriotism and Providence: the Politics of Hannah More

Chapter 4 ‘Well-neighboured Houses’: the Political Networks of Elite Women, 1780–1860

Chapter 5 From Supporting Missions to Petitioning Parliament: British Women and the Evangelical Campaign against Sati in India, 1813–30

Chapter 6 Women Writers and the Campaign for Jewish Civil Rights in Early Victorian England

Chapter 7 Domestic Economy and Political Agitation: Women and the Anti-Corn Law League, 1839–46

Chapter 8 ‘Our Several Spheres’: Middle-class Women and the Feminisms of Early Victorian Radical Politics