Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press.
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Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
dated her Samsons Legacie; it is now seen as a unity with her appeal to Parliament
dated 3 January 1642. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 85ff |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | She then went to Oxford, where Parliament
was sitting, to show it to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 1 |
Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | She printed a whole series of appeals to the High Court of Parliament
, and a whole series of welcomes and warnings about the imminent Second Coming of Christ. Having published in 1645 a tract... |
Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | In this she claimed for herself the Papal power to excommunicate, and proposed a new day called Moonday to replace Sunday (the sabbath), which Parliament
proposed to abolish. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
's father, Sir Robert Sidney, later second Earl of Leicester
, was born on 1 December 1595, Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. Seeley. 10 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blencowe, Robert, editor. Sydney Papers. J. Murray. xv |
Occupation | Benjamin Disraeli | After several failed attempts, BD
was elected to Parliament
as Conservative
member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Standing from prison for the constituency of St Patrick's, Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz,
became the first woman elected to the British Parliament
; but, following Sinn Féin
policy, she did not take her seat at Westminster. Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century. 356 Cook, Chris, and John Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman. 68-9 |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The title of this essay was invoked in Parliament
ary debate over women's suffrage in 1875. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 234 |
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 Features | Katherine Chidley | The style of the preface, emotively egalitarian and richly larded with Biblical allusion, 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 Features | Sarah Chapone | This 70-page pamphlet, addressed to Parliament
, exhibits detailed knowledge of the law and of recent cases involving heiress marriage, adultery, etc. SC
finds the English law harsher to women than either ancient Roman or... |
Dedications | Mary Cary | MC
published Twelve Humble Proposals, a tract dedicated to the Barebones Parliament
; it was apparently her last new publication. 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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... |
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