Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Du Bois | The new wife (or alleged wife) of DDB
's father
bore him a son; years later the son's legitimacy and claim to the family titles were recognised in Ireland but denied by the House of Lords |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Du Bois | In 1771, the House of Lords
, sitting on the question of the inheritance rights of her husband's illegitimate son, decided by one vote that her marriage licence was a forgery; however, it later emerged... |
Other Life Event | Dorothea Du Bois | The deaths of both her parents did not put an end to the family's internecine strife. In April 1771, the House of Lords
judged her mother's marriage certificate to be a forgery, though the evidence... |
politics | Mary Delany | A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the House of Lords
: they included Mary Pendarves (later MD
). Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press. 2: 135-7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. M. Delafield | The object of EMD
's satire is often upper-middle-class social mores. Styles of dress play a prominent role: those with artistic pretensions, for instance, are marked by their sandals and horn-rimmed glasses, sack dresses and... |
Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research. vol. 1 |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC
was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | The essay provides the text of the bill she had drafted by Alfred D. Hill
before she threw her weight instead behind an amendment introduced by Lord Penzance
in the Lords
which was able to... |
Travel | Frances Power Cobbe | |
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 | Mary Carpenter | The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC
in the welfare of the poor and uneducated. In 1831 the House of Lords
defeated... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | Attending the House of Lords
on account of her friendship with Edith Summerskill, MB
took close account of the Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner. They began to correspond over legal matters in 1967, first met in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Lady Cynthia Charteris
married Herbert Asquith
, Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith
and Helen Asquith
. Herbert Henry Asquith (later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1852-1928, was at this time... |
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