Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Conservative Party
Connections
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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. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | |
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/. |
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 | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative
government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888... |
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 | 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 | Emily Faithfull | EF
joined the South Manchester Primrose Habitation
, a Manchester association connected with the Primrose League
, an organization which promoted Conservative Party
principles. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 161 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, 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 | 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 | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton | Bulwer-Lytton's jump from radical sympathies to the Tory
party, coupled with his extravagant life and dandyism, made him a flamboyant and controversial figure. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 21 |
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... |
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... |
Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Following the death of her husband
, JFLW
wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom
, hoping he could help secure her a government pension. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 143 |
Textual Features | Emily Eden | EE
's preface explains that she first set this novel in what was then the present day: the pre-Reform-Bill, pre-railway era. She did not wish to update it in revising, so it is now set... |
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.
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.
September 1920: Home and Politics, a Conservative Party women's...
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September 1920
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
.
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.
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.
6 December 1923: A general election was held in Britain....
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6 December 1923
A general election was held in Britain.
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.
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
.
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.
27 October 1931: Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected...
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27 October 1931
Irene Ward
(later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives
to the British Parliament
, where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.
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