Introduction, the petticoat in politics / Kathryn Gleadle and Sarah Richardson -- Women, electoral privilege, and practice in the eighteenth century / Elaine Chalus -- Patriotism and providence / Anne Stott -- Well-neighboured houses / Sarah Richardson -- From supporting missions to petitioning Parliament / Clare Midgley -- Women writers and the campaign for Jewish civil rights in early Victorian England / Nadia Valman -- Domestic economy and political agitation / Simon Morgan -- Our several spheres' / Kathryn Gleadle -- Jenny rules the roost / Matthew Cragoe.