Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Robert Southey | Early in life he embraced the egalitarian principles of the French Revolution and sought with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge
to raise money for political ventures through writing. He later rejected his youthful idealism and... |
| politics | Benjamin Disraeli | As a Conservative
MP, BD
took a marked interest in the Chartist movement and supported the Corn Laws. He was a socially reforming and a markedly imperialist Prime Minister. |
| politics | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
| politics | Emily Faithfull | EF
joined the South Manchester Primrose Habitation
, a Manchester association connected with the Primrose League
, an organization which promoted Conservative Party
principles. Walker, Linda. “Party Political Women: A Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 165-91. 166, 170-1 |
| politics | Kate Parry Frye | In the postwar general election the former radical KPF
supported the Conservatives. After the Labour victory she blamed such hardships as the introduction of bread rationing on this awful government; she also canvassed for... |
| politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
sought nomination as the Conservative
candidate for Whitechapel and St George's in the East End of London, a poor constituency, and a hard one for a Conservative candidate to win. Her move to... |
| politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
was appointed (in one of the last acts of Arthur Balfour
's Conservative
government) to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | |
| Occupation | Barbara Cartland | BC
was elected, as a Conservative
member for Hatfield, to the HertfordshireCounty Council
, where she served until 1964. Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. 139-41 |
| Occupation | John Wilson Croker | JWC
became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory
MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey
and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk
)... |
| Occupation | Benjamin Disraeli | After several failed attempts, BD
was elected to Parliament
as Conservative
member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| Occupation | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton | Bulwer
served as an independent radical Member of Parliament, who in 1832 reformed himself out of a seat. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Rigby | The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher
's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere. Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray, 1880. vi This presumably refers to... |
| Literary Setting | Muriel Spark | It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. Spark, Muriel. The Girls of Slender Means. Macmillan, 1963. 1 |
| Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | Stalwarts of the Labour Party
(where NM
's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM
had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an... |
Timeline
25 July 1886: Following the general election of this month,...
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25 July 1886
Following the general election of this month, the Marquess of Salisbury
(Conservative
) formed the British government for a second time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...
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January 1910
A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George
's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative
and [Ulster] Unionist Parties
came in only two votes behind the Liberals
11 April 1912: Asquith brought forward the Liberal party's...
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11 April 1912
Asquith
brought forward the Liberal party
's third Home Rule Bill for Ireland (since 1886) in return for election support from John Redmond
of the Irish Party
.
“Living Heritage. Parliament and Ireland. Third Home Rule Bill”. www. parliament.uk.
14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...
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14 December 1918
The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
166
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
xlviii
“The 1918 coupon general election”. Liberal Democrat History Group.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92
“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.
September 1920: Home and Politics, a Conservative Party women's...
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September 1920
Home and Politics, a Conservative Party
women's paper, began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
46
23 October 1922: Andrew Bonar Law was chosen leader of the...
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23 October 1922
Andrew Bonar Law
was chosen leader of the British Conservative Party
following the resignation of Lloyd George
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
362
Green, E. H. H. “The Man Who Stood Behind the Man Who Won the War”. London Review of Books, 16 Sept. 1999, pp. 23-4.
23
15 November 1922: In the British general election the Conservative...
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15 November 1922
In the British general election the Conservative Party
, under its recently-elected leader Bonar Law
, won a majority of 77, ending David Lloyd George
's Liberal
-Conservative coalition.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
22 May 1923: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) became Prime...
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22 May 1923
Stanley Baldwin
(Conservative
) became Prime Minister following Bonar Law
's resignation on grounds of ill health.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
363-4
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
6 December 1923: A general election was held in Britain....
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6 December 1923
A general election was held in Britain.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under UK General Election 1923
Late October 1924: A letter inciting Britons to revolution,...
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Late October 1924
A letter inciting Britons to revolution, purportedly written by Grigori Evseyevich Zinoviev
and sent from the Third International
to the small British Communist Party
, was obtained by and published in the British press.
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
96-7
4 November 1924: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) formed the...
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4 November 1924
Stanley Baldwin
(Conservative
) formed the government in the UK for a second time following the general election of 29 October, succeeding to Labour Party
leader James Ramsay MacDonald
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
364
30 May 1929: Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of...
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30 May 1929
Labour
came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives
in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election....
5 June 1929: James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, formed...
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5 June 1929
James Ramsay MacDonald
, Labour
leader, formed a minority government in the UK for the second time, following the first general election with full women's suffrage.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
27 October 1931: In the general election, the National Coalition...
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27 October 1931
In the general election, the National Coalition Government won a landslide victory (a majority of nearly five hundred seats over the combined opposition) but became much more Conservative
in tone than it had been. Most...
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