Lady Insurrectionists

The freethinking women who helped ignite Chartism, the largest democratic movement of the nineteenth century

In this groundbreaking history, Judy Cox brings to life the radical voices of women who refused to be sidelined – figures such as the ‘Red-Hot Radical’ poet Eliza Cook, Quaker abolitionist Elizabeth Pease and the electrifying Chartist speaker Mary Ann Walker. Far from being passive auxiliaries, these women were insurrectionists in th