Iremonger, Lucille. And His Charming Lady. Secker and Warburg.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Lucille Iremonger | LI
published her ironically titled And His Charming Lady, a composite biographical study of wives of Members of Parliament
. Iremonger, Lucille. And His Charming Lady. Secker and Warburg. 8 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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 |
Publishing | Sophia Jex-Blake | Advocating the passage by Parliament
of Russell Gurney
's Enabling Act, SJB
published an essay in the Fortnightly Review titled The Practice of Medicine by Women. Gurney supported various women's causes. His wife, Emelia Russell Gurney |
Textual Features | May Laffan | The protagonist, John O'Rooney Hogan, is the nephew of a bishop who aims at social climbing. He gains a veneer of Protestantism by attending Trinity College, Dublin
, and at the urging of the duplicitous... |
politics | Marghanita Laski | As a member of the Annan Committee
, ML
helped present the Committee's Report on the Future of Broadcasting (written by Lord Annan
himself) to Parliament
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “British Media Inquiries, White Papers and Official reports: Broadcasting”. Terra Media. |
Textual Features | Constance Lytton | No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison
without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | D'Eon, whom Macaulay respected, was sometimes linked with her as a fellow learned lady by those who thought him to be female. On June 6, 1771 the Public Advertiser carried a spoof report that CM |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 92 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU
deputation to Parliament
. She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison
and her experience garnered much media attention. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 30-2 |
politics | Harriet Martineau | Because she reached a large audience on current issues such as political reform, industry, and economic policy, HM
became highly influential in political circles. She was sent so many Blue Books (Parliament
ary reports)... |
Reception | Harriet Martineau | Undertaken at the urging of John Bright
, who supplied HM
with evidence collected for his Parliament
ary committee, this venture was not well-received and brought her no money. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 158, 257-8 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Hannah More | She wrote it in haste, to catch the date when the issue was being debated in parliament
. Roberts, William. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More. L. and G. Seeley, http://Rutherford HSS. 1: 396 |
politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | She also became the driving force behind her husband's political career. Though strongly opposed by their families, the couple shared a strong belief in the Liberal party and worked together on campaigns which brought Philip... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Nooth | The nobility of the skin means a class system based on race as others are based on birth or money. Nooth's translation has no preliminary pages, no address by translator to reader. Grégoire cites his... |
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... |
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