Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
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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 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After receiving her title, MHVR
was still barred from attending proceedings of the House of Lords
. When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed in 1919, there was still no progress to admit into... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 87 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 87 |
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 | Rose Macaulay | RM
wrote in The Spectator criticising the House of Lords
verdict which acquitted Lord de Clifford
of manslaughter after he had killed someone in a road accident. The father of this Lord de Clifford had... |
Other Life Event | Maria Theresa Longworth | The House of Lords
, the highest court of appeal, found in favour of William Charles Yelverton
in declaring that his marriage to MTL
was not legally valid. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , pp. 275-91. 283 |
Other Life Event | Maria Theresa Longworth | In 1863 Yelverton
took his case to the highest possible authority, with an appeal to the House of Lords
against the Dublin verdict. |
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 Production | Elinor James | As Elianor James, EJ
published To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (not her only broadsheet with this title) urging the House of Lords
to pass an anti-Dissenter bill which forbade Occasional Conformity. Both EJ |
Textual Production | Elinor James | In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords
and Commons
for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ
again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
politics | Frances Jacson | FJ
was a Whig in politics and late in her life a reformist. She followed the slow gestation of the Reform Bill with close interest. When the House of Lords
rejected the Bill in September... |
Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | ESG
says that she brought a case for divorce against her husband (which, had she won it, would have marked an important precedent), but that it was turned down by the House of Lords
... |
Leisure and Society | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | As a young man Byron lived a desultory and over-expensive life, though he was already deeply serious about his poetry. He took his seat in the House of Lords
in March 1809, the same month... |
politics | Monica Furlong | MF
founded the Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod or GRAS
at an evening meeting held in the Moses Room of the House of Lords
, Westminster, and hosted by novelist Ruth Rendell |
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