Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18.
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Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
delivered a speech to Parliament
in which she declined their petitions that she should marry. Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18. 18 Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press. 56-8 |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
gave before Parliament
her golden speech (which for years was assumed to be her last). It was published the same year. Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press. 342 and n1 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | This poem both expressed and helped further to fuel the indignation felt by the educated public over the revelation of children's working conditions in the Reports to Parliament
of the Children's Employment Commission
. (One... |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
made her final speech to Parliament
before its rising: it is a long speech, again elegiac in tone, delivered to only a small audience, since most of the MPs had already left for their... |
Textual Production | Maude Royden | MR
was sensitive to the damage done by cultural stereotypes, prejudices, and assumptions about female sexuality. Much of her work argues defiantly against the sexual double standard and the widespread condemnation of female sexuality in... |
Textual Production | Lydia Howard Sigourney | LHS
commemorated her visit to the state opening of the British parliament
in a poem which, in covering Queen Victoria
's Speech from the Throne, addresses the place of women in public life. Sackville-West, Vita. The Annual. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Cobden-Sanderson. 291-4 |
Textual Production | Katherine Chidley | KC
may have been one of the Leveller
women who petitioned Parliament
for the release of John Lilburne
; she may also have been the chief writer of the petition. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 2, pp. 213-33. 225 |
Textual Production | Melesina Trench | Once more only a single copy survives, at the New York Public Library
. The Customs and Excise tax on salt imported from foreign countries, and into England from Scotland, was widely felt to be... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | On the day that John Stuart Mill
presented to Parliament
the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC
placed a double-column letter in the high Tory
paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's now intensified campaign on domestic violence found fullest expression in her Contemporary Review essay Wife-Torture in England; it crucially shaped the Matrimonial Causes Act passed by Parliament
in May. Cobbe, Frances Power. “Wife-Torture in England”. Contemporary Review, Vol. 32 , pp. 55-87. prelims Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. Routledge. 63-4 Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 260-1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament
's refusal... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Howitt | According to Carl Ray Woodring
, the magazine's heroine from first to last was George Sand
. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 137 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christabel Pankhurst | Having pointed out that women acquire on marriage an extra set of legal disabilities to go with those they had before, and having argued that without the vote women are in no state to alter... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Jebb | AJ
wrote to John Cartwright
of her fears that parliament
would plunder the East, and enslave this nation at their leisure. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 602 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The book's satire on parliament
for its treatment of women was highly topical at a date two years after the new Divorce Act, three years after the Married Women's Property Committee
was formed, and during... |
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