Suggested Reading

• D. Andrew ‘Popular culture and public debate: London 1780’, Historical Journal (1996)
• H. Barker & E. Chalus (eds) Gender in 18th-century England: roles, representation, responsibilities
• E. Chalus Elite women in English political life c.1754-1790
• L. Colley Britons: forging the nation 1707-1837 [Chapter 6]
• L. Davidoff & C. Hall Family fortunes: men and women of the middle class, 1780-1850
• A. Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 
• K. Gleadle and S. Richardson (eds) Women in British politics, 1760-1860: the power of the petticoat
• K. Gleadle, Borderline Citizens
• J.S. Lewis Sacred to female patriotism: gender, class and politics in late Georgian Britain
• S. Richardson, The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
  
• A. Stott Hannah More: the first Victorian
• A. Vickery (ed) Women, privilege, and power: British politics 1750 to the present

Sources

• Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen-Eleven
• Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Priscilla Wakefield, Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex
  
• Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

Questions

• Were women able to participate in politics in this period?
  
• What strategies did they use?
  
• What were the limitations on their participation?
  
• What arguments did women themselves put forward for increased participation in public life?