What Happened Next? The story of Mrs. Barker's tea party reached the newspapers in London. The editors of the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser published a political cartoon making fun of Mrs. Barker and her neighbors calling it, "A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, North Carolina." They described the tea party as "unseemly action by colonial women." The ladies' pledge letter also showed up in London and was published in the newspapers which were later read in the colonies. As a result, hundreds of colonists in the Carolinas and Georgia joined the ladies and swore off tea. The price they paid was some ridicule; the result was the first women's political movement.

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