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Changing Concepts of Citizenship: Gender, Empire, and Class - Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England. By Helen Rogers. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2000. Pp. vii+342. $79.95 (cloth). - Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867. Edited by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, and Jane Rendall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+303. $70.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). - Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race. Edited by Ian Christopher Fletcher, Laura E. Nym Mayhall, and Philippa Levine. London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xxii+252. $95.00 (cloth).

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Women and the People: Authority, Authorship and the Radical Tradition in Nineteenth-Century England. By Helen Rogers. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2000. Pp. vii+342. $79.95 (cloth).
Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867. Edited by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, and Jane Rendall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+303. $70.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).
Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race. Edited by Ian Christopher Fletcher, Laura E. Nym Mayhall, and Philippa Levine. London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xxii+252. $95.00 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Anna Clark
Anna Clark
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University of Minnesota
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 263 - 270
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9 See also Fitzgerald, James Edward, The Native Policy of New Zealand: A Speech Delivered in the House of Representatives of New Zealand August 6, 1862 (Wellington, 1862), reprinted in Clark, Anna and Richardson, Sarah, eds., The History of Suffrage, 1760–1867, vol. 6 (London, 1999)Google Scholar.

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