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In 1831, Anne Lister wrote that she ‘found distinctly for the first time’ her own clitoris. This culminated a search of at least eleven years, involving much exploration of her own and her female lovers’ anatomy. Of course, her explicit diaries made clear that she touched her own and her lovers’ clitorises, but she was not able to link her own sensations with the anatomical terms she found in textbooks. By looking at Lister’s quest to find the clitoris, we can understand in more detail how difficult it was for women to conceptualise this important part of their bodies. If Anne Lister, a brilliant, erudite woman very knowledgeable about science and anatomy, and very sexually experienced with women, took so long to figure it out, it must have been much more difficult for ordinary women. The most startling aspect of how discourses could affect perception was that Lister spent ten years confusing the clitoris with the cervix, leading to fruitless explorations of her own body and those of her lovers. This chapter will thus contribute to the larger historiography about the history of the clitoris - when it appeared in anatomical books, and when some medical texts started to downplay or omit it.

Historians and nineteenth-century people alike debate over how we know what people did and felt regarding sexuality in the nineteenth century, but the most interesting aspect is how they understood, articulated, censored, or created new understandings of it. The period 1780–1850 witnessed a great rise in births out of wedlock. In response, authorities used workhouses to discipline unmarried mothers. Similarly, from the 1860s the police regulated prostitution. But both efforts produced political protests. Men who had sex with other men also faced increasing police regulation, but sex between women was not illegal and largely hidden. During the late nineteenth century sexual purity advocates, Darwinians, eugenicists, and feminists debated the function and morality of sexuality.

with materials such as shells. Future research into the material literacies required by the ‘hard’ material world, touched on in Stobart’s chapter on furniture, would therefore be of great use. Overall, this collection adds significant depth to consumer-focused histories of the eighteenth century, providing a valuable model of material literacy for future scholars. It challenges entrenched boundaries between producers and consumers, and moves our understanding of engagement with the material world beyond the shop counter to the varied and multiple spaces in which it might take place. This forms a vital step forward in histories of consumption, but the volume is of broader significance for scholars of the eighteenth century and beyond as it also speaks powerfully to gender and status hierarchies of knowledge, print culture, commerce, and colonial entanglements.

This set covers the expansion of suffrage to middle class and working class men, and their efforts to extend these reforms to women and the colonies. It traces the evolution of parliamentary reform from its beginnings with the Levellers of the seventeenth century, concentrating on the arguments for and against expansion of the franchise in the eighteenth century, and the debates which led to the First Reform Act of 1832 and the Second Reform Act of 1867, and culminating in a discussion of the failure of the women's suffrage in 1873. The set includes a historical introduction, and six volumes of reprints of original and often rare pamphlets from metropolitan and provincial sources, tracts, caricatures, parliamentary debates, and other material on suffrage. New editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index. It will appeal to historians studying the history of suffrage and the labour movement throughout the long nineteenth century.