Introduction: the political worlds of women in nineteenth-century Britain -- Politics at home -- Useful soup for benevolent purposes: the politics of domestic economy -- Philanthropic economy: radicalism, women, and charity -- Women and the politics of the parish -- Female petitioning: the multiform warfare of political life -- From the ventilator to the ladies' cage: women and the Houses of Parliament -- Encounters with imperial and international affairs -- British women and the rosewater revolution -- Conclusion: spheres and spaces; borders and frontiers.
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