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...

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...

The style of the preface, emotively egalitarian and richly larded with Biblical allusion, suggests Chidley. So does the logic of the central argument: that the Supream authority in this Nation, the Commons assembled in...

In a passage that deploys all her own high rhetorical ability she seeks to prove that women's ability is normally inferior to men's. Wollstonecraft's book, which is so run after here, that there is no...

Vineta Colby comments that here and in its predecessor, Both novels are dressed and furnished in meticulous detail. The cold statistics of the parliament ary Blue Books are bedecked in sables and lace.

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...

Written after the death of her husband, the poems in the collection deal with death, grief, and consolation as well as a number of feminist issues. Her poem Outlawed for example, written in response to...

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...

She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833. Blessington was ahead of the game with this novel depicting the defeat of the movement for repeal of the Act...

QEI delivered a speech to Parliament in which she declined their petitions that she should marry.

QEI gave before Parliament her golden speech (which for years was assumed to be her last). It was published the same year.

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...

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...