Editing London Corresponding Society (section)

=== Male fraternity ===
Women participated in some of popular debating societies from which the LCS recruited. For short periods they created their own, bringing to public notice demands for equal education, equal rights and protection of female occupations.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thale|first=Mary|date=1995|title=Women in London Debating Societies in 1780|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0424.1995.tb00011.x|journal=Gender & History|language=en|volume=7|issue=1|pages=5–24|doi=10.1111/j.1468-0424.1995.tb00011.x}}</ref> While it counted among its members men like [[Thomas Spence]] and Dr William Hodgson (''The Female Citizen'') <ref name=":4">{{Cite DNB |wstitle= Hodgson, William (1745–1851) |volume= 27 |last= Cooper |first= Thompson  |author-link= Thompson Cooper |pages = 72–73 |short=1}}</ref> who did advocate political rights and equality for women, the LCS appears to have been a male fraternity. The venues in which its divisions met – taverns and coffee houses – were predominantly male spaces, and reference to women in records of their proceedings are few.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Boyce|first=Lucienne|date=2019|title='A Reformer's Wife ought to be a heroine': Women in the London Corresponding Society|url=https://francesca-scriblerus.blogspot.com/2019/02/a-reformers-wife-ought-to-be-heroine.html}}</ref>

In August 1793, the Society's General Committee approved a motion calling for the formation of a female Society of Patriots. By September, a government spy reported that there was a Society of Women meeting in Southwark. The LCS arranged to send two of its delegates to instruct them. But it does not appear that female patriots were ever admitted as members to the LCS itself. Women did turn out for major LCS demonstrations.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thale|first=Mary|title=Selections from the Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792–1799|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1983|isbn=9780521243636|pages=80, 83}}</ref>