1. Canterbury Weekly Journal, 22 July 1837; Sarah Richardson, ‘The Role of Women in Electoral Politics in Yorkshire During the 1830s’, Northern History, 32 (1996), p. 140, n. 32.
2. Recent works include two books by John A. Phillips, Plumpers, Splitters and Straights: Electoral Behaviour in Unreformed England (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983) and The Great Reform Bill in the Boroughs: English Electoral Behaviour, 1818–1841 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992); Frank O’Gorman, Voters, Patrons and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System of Hanoverian England, 1734–1832 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990) and ‘Campaign Rituals and Ceremonies: the Social Meaning of Elections in England, 1780–1860’, Past & Present, 135 (1992), pp. 79–115; Jon Lawrence and Miles Taylor (eds), Party, State and Society: Electoral Behaviour in Britain since 1820 (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997); Norman Gash, Politics in the Age of Peel: A Study in the Technique of Parliamentary Representation (London: Longmans, Green, 1952); H.J. Hanham, Elections and Party Management: Politics in the Time of Disraeli and Gladstone (London: Longman, 1959) provide detailed treatments of Victorian electioneering history.
3. Dorothy Thompson, The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution (London: Templesmith, 1984), pp. 121–2.
4. James Vernon, Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815–1867 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 249.
5. Elaine Chalus, ‘“That Epidemical Madness”: Women and Electoral Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century’, in Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds), Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities (London: Longman, 1997), p. 153.