POLITICS AND OPINION IN HANOVERIAN BRITAIN
Women and Politics
Suggested Reading
J.S. Lewis Sacred to female patriotism: gender, class and politics in late Georgian Britain
E. Chalus Elite women in English political life c.1754-1790
See also
D. Andrew ‘Popular culture and public debate: London 1780’, Historical Journal (1996)
H. Barker & E. Chalus (eds) Gender in 18th-century England: roles, representation,
responsibilities
L. Colley Britons: forging the nation 1707-1837 [Chapter 6]
L. Davidoff & C. Hall Family fortunes: men and women of the middle class, 1780-1850
A. Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
K. Gleadle and S. Richardson (eds) Women in British politics, 1760-1860: the power of the
petticoat
A. Stott Hannah More: the first Victorian
A. Vickery (ed) Women, privilege, and power: British politics 1750 to the present
Gender and the Public Sphere
Suggested Reading
Mitzi Myers, ‘Reform or ruin: a revolution in female manners’, Studies in Eighteenth-
Century Culture, 1982
Dror Wahrman, 'Percy's Prologue: from Gender Play to Gender Panic in Eighteenth-
Century England', Past and Present, 1998
See also
L. Gordon Mary Wollstonecraft: a new genus
Pam B Hirsch, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: a problematic legacy’ in Clarissa Campbell Orr (ed.),
Wollstonecraft’s Daughters
Margaret Jacob, Living the Enlightenment, ch. 5
R. M. Janes, ‘On the reception of Mary Wollstonecraft’s "A Vindication of the Rights of
Woman"’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 1978
Ludmilla Jordanova, Sexual Visions
Harriet Devine Jump, Mary Wollstonecraft
Gary Kelly, Revolutionary Feminism, chap 5
Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor (eds), Women, Gender and Enlightenment
Matthew McCormack, The Independent Man: Citizenship and Gender Politics in Georgian
England
S H Myers, The Bluestocking Circle. Women, Friendship and the Life of the Mind in
Eighteenth-Century England
Hilda Smith (ed.), Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition

A. Vickery ‘Golden age to separate spheres? a review of the categories and chronology of English women’s history’, Historical Journal, 1993
Religion and Dissent
Suggested Reading
J.Bradley, Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism: Non-Conformity in 18th Century
Politics and Society
D. Hempton, Methodism: empire of the spirit
R. J. Brown, Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850
See also
T. Claydon, 'The Sermon and the Public Sphere', in The English Sermon Revised.
Religion, Literature and History 1600-1750, edited by L A Ferrell and P McCullough, pp
208-33
R. Currie, A. Gilbert and L. Horsley, Churches and Churchgoers: patterns of church
growth in the British Isles since 1700
G. Ditchfield, The Evangelical Revival
W. Gibson, Church, State and Society 1760-1850
W. Gibson, The achievement of the Anglican church, 1689-1800: the confessional state
in eighteenth century England
C. Haydon, Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth Century England
W. Gibson and R. Ingram (ed.), Religious identities in Britain, 1660-1832
D. Hempton, Methodism and politics in English Society 1750-1850
B. Hilton, The Age of Atonement: the Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and
Economic Thought 1785-1865
R. J. Hole, Pulpits, politics and public order in English Society 1760-1832
Warrington Academy and Radical Education
Suggested Reading
P O’Brien, Warrington Academy
Ruth Watts, ‘Some radical educational networks of the late eighteenth century and their influence’, History of Education, 1998
See also
Lucy Aikin, The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, with a Memoir
Aileen Fyfe, ‘Reading children’s books in late eighteenth-century dissenting families’,
Historical Journal, 2000
Daniel White, ‘The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin family circle and the dissenting public sphere’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1999
Ruth Watts, ‘Revolution and Reaction: “Unitarian” academies, 1780-1800’, History of
Education, 1991
Ruth Watts, ‘Knowledge is Power – Unitarians, gender and education in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries’, Gender and Education, 1989

Ann George, ‘Grounds of assent in Joseph Priestley’s A Course of Lectures on Oratory
and Criticism’, Rhetorica, 1998
Works by Barbauld and Aikin are online
Print Culture and the Press
Suggested Reading
E.Hellmuth, ‘The palladium of all other English liberties: reflections on the liberty of the press in England during the 1760s and 17702’ in Hellmuth (ed.), The Transformation of
Political Culture
R. Kropf, ‘Libel and Satire in the Eighteenth Century’, Eighteenth Century Studies, 1975
Tedra Osell, ‘Tatling women in the public sphere’, Eighteenth Century Studies, 2005
See also
R. Alston, ‘The British Book Trade, 1701 to 1800’, Publishing History, 1984
Arthur Aspinall, ‘The circulation of newspapers in the early nineteenth century’, Review
of English Studies (1946)
Scott Black, ‘Social and literary form in the Spectator’, Eighteenth Century Studies, 1999
Ian Christie, ‘British newspapers in the later Georgian Age’, in I. Christie, Myth and
Reality in Late Eighteenth-Century British Politics
Brian Cowan, ‘Mr Spectator and the coffeehouse public sphere’, Eighteenth Century
Studies, 2004
G.A. Cranfield, The Development of the Provincial Newspaper, 1700-1760
M. Harris, ‘The Management of the London Newspaper Press during the Eighteenth
Century’, Publishing History, 1978
M. Harris, and A. Lee (eds.), The Press in English Society from the Seventeenth to the
Nineteenth Centuries
Jones, Powers of the Press: Newspapers, Power and the Public in Nineteenth Century
England
W.C. Lowe, ‘Peers and Printers: The Beginnings of Sustained Press Coverage of the
House of Lords in the 1770s, Parliamentary History, 1988
M. Peters, Pitt and Popularity: the patriot minister and London opinion during the Seven
Years War
J. Raymond (ed.), News, Newspapers and Society in early modern Britain
D. Read, Press and People 1790-1850: opinion in three English Cities
P.D.G. Thomas, ‘The Beginning of Parliamentary Reporting in the Newspapers, 1768-
1774’, English Historical Review, 1959
R.B. Walker, ‘The Newspaper press in the reign of William III’, Historical Journal, 1974
Popular Political Culture
Suggested Reading
N Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain
K Wilson, The Sense of the People
See also

J Brewer, Common People and Politics
J Brewer (ed.), An Ungovernable people
J Bradley, Popular politics and the American revolution in England
I R Christie, Wilkes, Wyvill and Reform
H Dickinson, The Politics of the people in 18th century Britain
P Langford, ‘London and the American Revolution’ in J Stevenson (ed.), London in the
Age of Reform
J Mori, ‘Languages of Loyalism: Patriotism, Nationhood and the State in the 1790s’,
English Historical Review, 2003
M Philp, ‘Vulgar Conservatism, 1792-3’, English Historical Review, 1995
N Rogers, ‘Crowd and people in the Gordon riots’ in E Hellmuth (ed.), The
Transformation of Political Culture
George Rudé, ‘The Gordon rioters and their victims’, Transactions of the Royal Historical
Society, 1956
G Rude, Wilkes and Liberty
J Stevenson, Popular Disturbances in England, 1700-1832
P.D.G. Thomas, ‘John Wilkes and the Freedom of the Press’, Bulletin of the Institute of
Historical Research, 1960
D Wright, Popular Radicalism