women + chartism

women and chartism

- substantial support in early years

- 1/3 signatures on 1839 petition

- important though secondary roles in movement

- involved fundraising activities / sunday schools / sewing banners + organising tea parties

- attitude to local shopkeepers more significant, "exclusive dealing" only w/ shopkeepers supporting chartism, boycotting hostile ones

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- some 100 female chartist associations inc 23 in scotland…