TY - JOUR
AU - Roberts, Matthew
AB - Journal of Victorian Culture Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2012, 96–124 REVIEWS by Kathryn Gleadle, Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2010, vþ 321 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-726449-2 In this important, rich, nuanced and ground-breaking study, Kathryn Gleadle sets out to analyse women’s involvement in British politics between 1815 and 1867 (though no explicit rationale is ever provided for this chronological focus). Gleadle’s is the first comprehensive study to bring together the various ways in which late Georgian and early Victorian middle-class and gentry women participated in the political process both at Westminster and at the grass roots level. Politically minded women petitioned, attended the House of Commons, wrote letters, published tracts and books, developed expertise in aspects of welfare and land reform; cultivated and dispensed patronage, and joined pressure groups. Gleadle is particularly sensitive to how the different sites of political participation – family, community and the parochial sphere (what she terms ‘landscapes’) – conditioned the nature and extent of women’s political involvement. The book is organized into two parts. Part I sets out the conceptual and analytical framework, focusing broadly on the landscape of politics; while Part II uses a set of case studies 
TI - Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain, 1815–1867
JO - Journal of Victorian Culture
DO - 10.1080/13555502.2012.662024
DA - 2012-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/borderline-citizens-women-gender-and-political-culture-in-britain-1815-X5SOREDq87
SP - 96
EP - 98
VL - 17
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -