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Contested Space: The Public and Private Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Radical Expression: Political Language, Ritual, and Symbol in England, 1790–1850. By James A. Epstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 233. - Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture, c. 1815–1867. By James Vernon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii + 429. - London's Teeming Streets, 1830–1914. By James Winter. London: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xii + 263. - Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870–1918. By Ellen Ross. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 308.

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Anna Clark
Anna Clark*
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 2: Revisionisms , April 1996 , pp. 269 - 276
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1 Habermas, Jürgen, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, trans. Burger, Thomas (1962; reprint, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1989), p. 173Google Scholar; Landes, Joan, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1988), p. 45Google Scholar.

2 See also Finn, Margot C., After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics, 1848–1874 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 189Google Scholar.

3 Joyce, Patrick, Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class, 1840–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 27CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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