An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts is Anna Barbauld’s contribution to the movement for repealing restrictions on British Dissenters in public life. Published in 1790, it is believed to be the only intervention by a female writer on this topic (Kraft and McCarthy 2002, 262). In this pamphlet, Barbauld is specifically responding to the rejection of a motion submitted in Parliament in March of that year that would have allowed Dissenters to hold civil and military offices. Her disappointment at the MPs’ rejection of it is expressed in ironical terms, with the aim of helping Anglicans to see that enfranchising Dissenters poses no tangible threat to them. She additionally cultivates a strategy of logic throughout the pamphlet, picking apart one by one the fears which underpin the barring of non-Anglican participation in civil society. An Address marks the first of many interventions in the public sphere that Barbauld would make.