Helen Rogers, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• Contents: Women and the people: re-making the radical tradition; A leader of the people: Eliza Sharples and the radical platform, 1832-52; Women of the people: influence and force in the Chartist movement, 1838-48; Serving the people: feminist writers and the politics of improvement, 1830-50; The daughters of the people: representing the needlewomen, 1841-64; The people and the outcast: the Repeal movement and the battle for Liberalism, 1870-74; Of the common people: the dimensions of a radical life, Mary Smith, 1822-89; Beyond the people? Reconfiguring the radical tradition; Bibliography; Index.

'... no-one who seeks henceforward to consider the significance of class or of gender for understanding nineteenth century radical politics will be able to do so adequately without engaging with this important book.' Nineteenth Century Contexts '... Helen Rogers' Women and the People [is] the most important work in this area since Anna Clark's The Struggle for the Breeches (1995)... the book can be recommended as a serious attempt to build a sophisticated cultural history that allows for the agency of representation but also reconstructs the material reality of everyday life in the past.' Gender & History