Parliament

Details of the changed world include the telecommunication by screen image, extinction of smoking, and a three-day weekend and four-day work week. Houses are made of toughened glass and cars are solar-charged, self-renewing, and circular...

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...

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...

Probus (probably CF ) wrote in the Public Advertiser that a time was coming that will enable the people to resume the power delegated to the indolent, corrupt, and venal Parliament .

The tone of the novel is serious and didactic. Its claim to advocacy and realism is absolute: Let no one suppose we are going to write fiction, or to conjure up phantoms of a heated...

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.

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.

He followed this with letters to newspapers urging the abolitionist cause, and in early 1788 published four reviews of books on the race question by James Tobin and other defenders of the system of slavery...

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.

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)...

After the National Union of Women Workers voted to support female suffrage, MAW formed a Joint Advisory Committee to liaise with Parliament about her social work.

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...

The Anti-Slavery Society submitted a petition to parliament on MP 's behalf, for her freedom.

PA ran (unsuccessfully) for Parliament in Fulham as a member of the Radical Alliance .

After decades of agitation led by ER , Parliament passed the Family Endowment Bill, ensuring that mothers would receive state support for the upbringing of their children.