Women and the People Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England
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- Helen Rogers
- Published: 23 Nov 2000
- DOI: 10.4324/9781315318028
- Print ISBN: 9780754602613
- eBook ISBN: 9781315318028
Contents
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Front Matter
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Women and the People: Re-making the Radical Tradition
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IThe meanings of the populist idiom
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IIRadicalism and representation
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IIIThe ambiguities of radicalism
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IVRethinking experience
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VThe authority of experience
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VIPolitics and power
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A Leader of the People: Eliza Sharples and the Radical Platform, 1832–52
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IIsis: conversion and rebirth
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IIEve: freethought and the politics of knowledge
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IIILiberty: women and republicanism
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IVThe Lady of the Rotunda: women in public
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VHypatia: the perils of martyrdom
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Women of the People: Influence and Force in the Chartist Movement, 1838–48
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IMoral- and physical-force Chartism: a contested history
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IIThe Birmingham Women’s Political Union and the influence of women
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IIIThe BWPU and the use of experience
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IVThe BWPU and the threat of force
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VThe Nottingham Female Political Union and the power of women
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VI‘What power has woman … ?’ Rhetoric and agency in the Chartist movement
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Serving the People: Feminist Writers and the Politics of Improvement, 1830–50
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IRadicals and writers
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IIFeminism and the radical unitarians
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IIIWriting for the people
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IVServing the cause of labour
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VAuthorship and authority
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The Daughters of the People: Representing the Needlewomen, 1841–64
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IWomen’s work in the needle trades
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II‘No slavery is worse’: the Children’s Employment Commissions and the dressmakers
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III‘A tragic and touching romance’: Henry Mayhew and the slopwomen
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IV‘Let the words of the poor girl … sink deep into your heart’: the politics of needlework
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V‘The work of emancipation’: the women’s movements and the needlewomen
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The People and the Outcast: The Repeal Movement and the Battle for Liberalism, 1870–74
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I‘The people and their rulers’: the contested elections and English democracy
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IIThe ‘solemn trust’: electors and the people
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III‘By force of conscience’: the politics of influence
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IV‘The old traditions of the party’: the contest for the Liberal Party
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V‘Those who are instructed in history’: rewriting the past; rewriting the future
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Of the Common People: The Dimensions of a Radical Life, Mary Smith, 1822–89
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IReading autobiography
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II‘Of the order of the common people’: childhood and identity
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III‘A lady without money’: work, mobility and status
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IV‘Women must be their own helpers just as every class and every individual must’: the politics of improvement
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V‘The inner cravings of my soul’: writing and subjectivity
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Beyond the People? Reconfiguring the Radical Tradition
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Back Matter