1. Nicholas Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), p. 243.
2. This was a feature of the Rebecca Riots and the Highland Riots, for example. See Malcolm I. Thomis and Jennifer Grimmett, Women in Protest, 18001850 (London: Croom Helm, 1982), pp. 138–46.
3. Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics pp. 219–22; Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992), pp. 237–8. For a pessimistic assessment of women’s political potential, see
4. Sally Alexander, ‘Women, Class and Sexual Difference in the 1830s and 1840s: Some Reflections on the Writing of Feminist History’, (1983) reprinted in Sally Alexander, Becoming a Woman and Other Essays in 19th and 20th Century Feminist History (London: Virago, 1994), pp. 97–125.
5. Anna Clark, The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (London: Rivers Oram Press, 1995), pp. 34–9.