Overview

This work brings together key texts drawn from the history of suffrage advocacy and agitation. The whole issue of voting rights and representation is shown to be anchored firmly in the wider political culture of Britain and Ireland as well as the Empire as a whole. This gradual process is charted from the age of Wilkes and Cartwright and the issue of voting rights in the American colonies, throughout the events of the Romantic age, to the Great Reform Act of 1832. The later volumes span the middle years of the 19th century which saw increasing organization and mobilization on the part of the suffrage movement up until the 2nd Reform Act of 1867.

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'the facsimile reproductions are of the highest quality and Pickering & Chatto have demonstrated once again why they are a leading publisher of primary source materials.' Australian Journal of Politics and History 'a most valuable collection of primary sources. Many of the texts included deserve much closer textual attention for the vitality and liveliness of the writing. The anthology can be strongly recommended for library purchase.' Democratization

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Anna Clark is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte and is the author of The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class Sarah Richardson is Lecturer in History at the University of Warwick. She is co-author of The Anglican Clergy and Yorkshire Politics in the Eighteenth Century

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