The political and the personal: The radicalism of Sophia Chichester and Georgiana Fletcher Welch

Women's History Review

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 469-487

  Latham, Jackie ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

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ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; POLITICS; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL VALUES; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0013000466     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612029900200216     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. The chief studies are: Barbara Taylor (1983) Eve and the New Jerusalem (London: Virago Press);
2. Jutta Schwarzkopf (1991) Women in the Chartist Movement (London: Macmillan);
3. Clare Midgley (1992) Women against Slavery (London: Routledge).
4. Taylor, Eve and the New Jerusalem, pp. 130-157, 189-190.
5. Schwarzkopf, Women in the Chartist Movement, p. 153.
6. J. Wiener (1983) Radicalism and Freethought in Nineteenth-century Britain, esp. pp. 180-181, 195-199 (Westport: Greenwood Press).
7. Unfortunately, Wiener follows T. C. Campbell (1899) The Battle of the Press (London: A & H. B. Bonner) in calling Sophia Chichester Sarah Chichester; his excellent study of Carlile did not draw on the Letter Book.
8. R. K. P. Pankhurst (1954) Anna Wheeler: a pioneer socialist and feminist, Political Quarterly, 25, pp. 132-143.
9. Margaret Lane (1972) Frances Wright and the 'Great Experiment' (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
10. A Chedzoy (1992) A Scandalous Woman: the story of Caroline Norton, (London: Allison & Busby).
11. R. G. Thorne (1986) The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, 3, pp. 787-788, 74-75 (London: Secker & Warburg);
12. V. L. Oliver (Ed.) (1914) Caribbeana, 3, pp. 366-374.
13. Contrast the situation of the aristocratic women in K. D. Reynolds (1998) Aristocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press);
14. they supported their politically active husbands by canvassing, entertaining, offering patronage locally and at court, directing campaigns and, if necessary, controlling family interests. A helpful contrast is also to be found in Elaine Chalus, 'That epidemical madness': women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century, in Hannah Barker & Elaine Chalus (Eds) (1997) Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: roles, representations and responsibilities, pp. 151-178 (London and New York: Longman).
15. The letter to James E. Smith, with others, is quoted in W. Anderson Smith (1882) 'Shepherd' Smith the Universalist: the story of a mind, p. 198 (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company).
16. James Pierrepont Greaves (1845) Letters and Extracts from the MS Writings of James Pierrepont Greaves, Alexander Campbell (Ed.), 2, p. 194 (London: John Chapman).
17. Smith, 'Shepherd' Smith the Universalist, p. 191.
18. E. J. Yeo (1996) The Contest for Social Studies, pp. 7-15 (London: Rivers Oram Press);
19. C. Tolley (1997) Domestic Biography: the legacy of evangelicalism in four nineteenth-century families (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
20. For Greaves see Joel Myerson (1978) William Harry Harland's 'Bronson Alcott's English friends', Resources for American Literary Study, 8, pp. 24-60.
21. James Pierrepont Greaves (1880) Triune-Life Divine and Human, p. xi (London: Elliot Stock).
22. James Pierrepont Greaves (1843) Letters and Extracts from the MS Writings of James Pierrepont Greaves, Alexander Campbell (Ed.), 1, p. 4 (Ham Common: Concordium Press).
23. John (Zion') Ward (1899) Zion's Works, C. B. Holinsworth (Ed.), 6, p. 261 (London: J. Macqueen).
24. J. Ward, Zion's Works, Ibid., 4, (1899), p. 222.
25. J. Ward, Zion's Works, Ibid., 7, (1900), p. 126.
26. Alfred Habegger (1994) The Father, p. 534, footnote (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
27. Madame Gatti de Gamond (1841) The Phalanstery: or attractive industry and moral harmony, p. 106 (London: Whittaker & Co.)
28. See Midgley, Women against Slavery. The 1843 Annual Report of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society lists 30 subscribers in Cheltenham of whom 20 are women; however, the sisters favoured large sums to personal clients rather than small sums to impersonal movements.
29. E. P. Thompson (1986) The Making of the English Working Class, p. 879 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books).
30. Wiener, Radicalism and Freethought, p. 198.
31. Newton Crosland (1898) Rambles round my Life, p. 67 (London: W. E. Allen).
32. Newton Crosland, Rambles round my Life, Ibid., pp. 72-76.
33. G. J. Holyoake (1892) Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life, pp. 162-163 (London: T. F. Unwin).
34. W. E. Adams (1903) Memoirs of a Social Atom, pp. 38-39 (London: Hutchinson).
35. Crosland, Rambles round my Life, p. 74.
36. Henry James, Senior (1879) Society the Redeemed Form of Man, p. 49 (Boston: Houghton Osgood & Co.)
37. Henry James (1914) Notes of a Son and Brother, p. 163 (London: Macmillan & Co.)
38. Elaine Chalus in "That epidemical madness', p. 154, notes the varied motives of women's engagement in politics including emotional investment in the politicians themselves and the 'sheer excitement of the election game'.
39. Madame Gatti de Gamond, The Phalanstery, p. 129.
40. F. K. Prochaska (1980) Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press).