Introduction: the political worlds of women in nineteenth-century Britain
Politics at home
Useful soup for benevolent purposes: the politics of domestic economy
Philanthropic economy: radicalism, women, and charity
Women and the politics of the parish
Female petitioning: the multiform warfare of political life
From the ventilator to the ladies' cage: women and the Houses of Parliament
Encounters with imperial and international affairs
British women and the rosewater revolution
Conclusion: spheres and spaces; borders and frontiers.