A compelling study [that] celebrates the working class pioneers of female emancipation who have been overlooked.

Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian

An epic history of revolutionary, reforming, protesting actions by women spanning nearly half a century, vividly written by Nan Sloane. From wide and deep archive research, the author brings together for the first time facinating and extraordinary stories of women from both educated middle-class and humble working-class backgrounds, many of them unknown… Uncontrollable Women bristles with brave females: writing, protesting, marching, shouting, pushing and shoving, never keeping quiet and never giving up.

Diane Atkinson, BBC History Magazine

Many of those brave women who risked their lives for our emancipation are largely forgotten now. Nan Sloane's powerful book puts their remarkable stories centre stage. It is a tantalising revelatory book which gives voice to a procession of brave and fearless women who stood up for the principles of free speech, political rights and voting reform – risking their lives and their liberty in the process… Nan Sloane's book at last gives these women a voice and recovers just some of their history.

Angela Eagle MP, The House

Nan Sloane points out in this brisk and illuminating study of political activism between 1789 and the passing of the Act, no vote did not mean no voice.

Jane Robinson, Times Literary Supplement

Some books sit neatly in the reference section, others are picked up and read intermittently - those which are found one day by the armchair and another, on the bedside table. This one deserves to be kept close at hand, not only because it's a damn good read, but because it's a reminder of how strong women can be rendered invisible and silent, unless we shine a spotlight and amplify their voices.

Lynne Walsh, Morning Star

Wonderful … Nan Sloane's Uncontrollable Women [is] a collection of insightful essays about female change-makers upon whose shoulders we stand today … We owe a debt of gratitude to Nan for her painstaking work putting this new book together and shining a spotlight on a group of women who have been largely ignored by the history books … The female 'Radicals, Reformers & Revolutionaries' who leap off the pages are women whose lives lay buried in disparate archives overshadowed by the loud men around them including many radical men whose cause they frequently espoused.

Julie Ward, The Chartist