Women in the Chartist Movement

by Jutta Schwarzkopf

Towards the end of the 1830s, large numbers of British working men and women rallied round the People's Charter in order to improve their living conditions through universal suffrage. Women's wide-ranging support of Chartism encompassed everything from extensive lecturing tours to domestic servicing of politically active menfolk. In this first full-length study of women's involvement in Chartism, the author demonstrates that, in their struggle, which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033353915X
• ISBN13: 9780333539156
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 337 Pages