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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. |
Author summary | Evelyn Waugh | EW
was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He... |
Cultural formation | Alison Uttley | She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose... |
Characters | Angela Thirkell | AT
ended her story with a reference to the evacuation from Dunkirk in 27 May-3 June 1940, which had taken place just before she handed in what she called ironically My Great War Novel. Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth. 129 |
Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | After The Duke's Daughter, AT
was delighted in Happy Returns, 1952 (Happy Return in the USA), to celebrate the Conservative
return to power at the general election of 26 October 1951. |
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. 1 |
Author summary | Robert Southey | Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth
and Coleridge
. In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Smedley | The book charts the gradual, up-and-down, always painful but inexorable self-emancipation of these children. Even the naturally conformist Catharine, still living with her parents at the end of the book, is by then much involved... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Smedley | Commoners' Rights is a record of the warfare that started up and raged about Minchinhampton Common, ending in its ultimate purchase by the Nation. The cause of the commoners, first taken up by the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah, Lady Piers | But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), Sarah, Lady Piers,. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott. 12 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
was born to presumably white, English, middle-class parents. She was a practising Anglican
and leaned towards High Church doctrine. Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 9, 62 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 9 |
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. vi This presumably refers to... |
Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Opponents of ER
's plans included members of the Conservative
, Liberal
, and Labour
parties, though the Independent Labour Party
gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the... |
Violence | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
was violently attacked by a group of young Liberal
s after an Independent Labour Party
victory in Mid-Devon; she later learned that a local Conservative
had been killed in the mélee. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 72-3 |
Timeline
February 1809: The Quarterly Review was founded....
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February 1809
The Quarterly Review was founded.
20 January 1843: Daniel M'Naghten shot and mortally wounded...
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20 January 1843
Daniel M'Naghten
shot and mortally wounded the private secretary of Sir Robert Peel
, the Prime Minister: his trial for murder changed British legislation on pleas of insanity.
4 December 1845: The position of Peel's Conservative government...
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4 December 1845
The position of Peel
's Conservative
government was severely shaken by a report in the Times that it was about to repeal the Corn Laws.
26 June 1846: The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert...
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26 June 1846
The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert Peel
's Conservative
government, after much agitation by groups such as the Anti-Corn Law League
and in face of the growing urgency of the Great Famine in Ireland.
30 June 1846: Lord John Russell (a Whig or Liberal, later...
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30 June 1846
Lord John Russell
(a Whig or Liberal, later created first Earl Russell) was invited to form the UK government following the resignation of Sir Robert Peel
, a Conservative
.
3 November 1855: An advertisement marked the launch of the...
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3 November 1855
An advertisement marked the launch of the conservative (high Tory
and Anglo-Catholic
), weeklySaturday Review; it focused on Politics, Literature, Science, and Art.
28 June 1866: Lord Derby, a Conservative, formed his third...
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28 June 1866
Lord Derby
, a Conservative
, formed his third government.
27 February 1868: Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative, became...
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27 February 1868
Benjamin Disraeli
, a Conservative
, became Prime Minister following the resignation of the Earl of Derby
.
3 December 1868: Following the first general election after...
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3 December 1868
Following the first general election after the Second Reform Act of the previous year, William Gladstone
, a Liberal
, formed the government in succession to ConservativeBenjamin Disraeli
.
20 February 1874: Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed...
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20 February 1874
Conservative
leader Benjamin Disraeli
formed the government for a second time, in succession to Gladstone
's Liberal
government.
1880s: Many local Women's Liberal Associations ...
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1880s
Many local Women's Liberal Association
s formed.
23 April 1880: Liberal William Gladstone formed the UK's...
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23 April 1880
LiberalWilliam Gladstone
formed the UK's government for the second time, following a Conservative
disaster in the general election.
1884: Tory women were admitted to the newly founded...
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1884
Tory women were admitted to the newly founded Primrose League
.
23 June 1885: The Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative)...
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23 June 1885
8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...
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8 June 1886
Gladstone
's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was defeated. The issue split his party, the Liberals
, and eventually the Liberal-Unionists were absorbed into the Conservatives
.
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