Early Feminists

KATHRYN GLEADLE teaches history at the University of Warwick and is currently working on a text on nineteenth century women and a feminist anthology.

• List of Pseudonyms and Initials Used in Contemporary Publications Acknowledgements Introduction Freedom and Patriarchy: The Unitarian Background 'The Assemblage of the Just': The Radical Unitarians 'The Stream of Freedom': Democracy and Domestic Mores 'Merely a Question of Bargain and Sale': Law Reform and the Union of the Sexes The Whittington Clubs Conclusion: The Reception, Significance and Influence Bibliography Index

'...One of the major strengths of this work lies in its scholarship, and the painstaking research with which Gleadle recreates the intellectual and literary networks which linked the better-known within this history...to those obscurer participants.' - Jane Rendall, Senior Lecturer, University of York 'Lively and innovative.' - Dorothy Thompson, Times Higher Education Supplement 'This is an important book. Anyone interested in feminist history should read this book.' - Dr Ruth Watts, University of Birmingham, Educational Review 'This study makes a real contribution to our understanding of the women's movement in the early nineteenth century.' - Professor Olive Banks