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Women’s news reading has often been overlooked by scholars of seventeenth-century news cultures. This article examines the manuscript newsletter collection of Lady Anne Pole, who received hundreds of newsletters in the 1690s and 1710s, to explore how she used her news reading as part of a process of ‘self-fashioning’ and as a form of political participation. It will also compare Pole’s collection to the manuscript newsletters of several other women, demonstrating that women can and should be seen as dedicated news consumers, and that they were able to maintain an active involvement in politics even when living far from London and when excluded from official political spaces and processes.