Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books.
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politics | Flora Tristan | With the help of a Turkish diplomat she met while in London, FT
attended sessions in the British House of Commons
and House of Lords
disguised as a Turkish gentleman. Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books. 55 |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was concerned about women's material conditions as well as formal rights. She laboured to obtain protection for battered women: an opponent in other contexts of flogging, she believed that the only effective remedy for... |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot
to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords
, her bill was countered in the... |
politics | Marina Warner | In a 1992 interview, MW
stated that she used to be a Republican, but that in middle age she is becoming less radical, with a larger share of royalist sympathies. She noted that there is... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | Viscountess Rhondda
petitioned the king for a writ of summons to allow her to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 82 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The Committee of Privileges
ruled that on the basis of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, Viscountess Rhondda
should be allowed to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Company. 32: 1040 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 82-3 Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora. 143 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The parliamentary Committee of Privileges
, under the directorship of Lord Birkenhead
, reversed its earlier decision and refused Viscountess Rhondda
the right to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 85-6 |
Publishing | Melesina Trench | |
Reception | Mary Prince | The Rev. James Curtin
, the missionary who had baptised MP
, testified to a House of Lords
committee that cruelty to slaves was almost unknown in Antigua. Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge. 378n31 |
Reception | Ruth Rendell | The year after being made a CBE, RR
was invited to sit in the House of Lords
as a Life Peer; she took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh
. The Babergh District was created... |
Reception | Martin Ross | A passage from the book was read in the House of Lords
in 1907, in support of a proposal to build a Channel Tunnel. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 147 |
Textual Features | Lucy Knox | The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of... |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper
of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one... |
Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | In the copyright row provoked by unauthorised reprints by the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson
, CM
began by asking what practices would benefit literature, and concluded that publishers needed to be able to count on... |
Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM
again became involved politically when the House of Commons
was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8... |
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