Parliament

This was Fielding's last production. Next day Sir Robert Walpole introduced into parliament the Licensing Act , which killed this company and EH 's stage career.

The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and...

Also in the 1840s, he was among those commissioned by Parliament to inquire into the conditions resulting from industrialisation. Such Blue Books reported on myriad aspects of the life of the nation. In the case...

According to Carl Ray Woodring , the magazine's heroine from first to last was George Sand . It discussed every genre of the arts, and had also a strong social conscience. In articles such...

Both his earnings and his expenses had been high: he had spent £3,000 adapting and renovating the Leicester Square property when he first bought it. His annual income rose gradually to twice this sum, but...

LI published her ironically titled And His Charming Lady, a composite biographical study of wives of Members of Parliament .

AJ wrote to John Cartwright of her fears that parliament would plunder the East, and enslave this nation at their leisure.

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.

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...

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 .

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...

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

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)...

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.