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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 | Mary Augusta Ward | 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. Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press. 156-7 |
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... |
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 | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | 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... |
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 |
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 |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | 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... |
politics | Mary Prince | The Anti-Slavery Society
submitted a petition to parliament
on MP
's behalf, for her freedom. Alexander, Ziggi et al. “Introduction; Supplement; Appendices”. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, edited by Moira Ferguson, Pandora, pp. 1-41. 116 |
politics | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
ran (unsuccessfully) for Parliament
in Fulham as a member of the Radical Alliance
. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. Kimber, Richard. Political Science Resources. http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/. |
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. |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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. Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press. 40 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
was arrested for the first time, for suffrage action in disrupting the opening of Parliament
in London; together with many suffrage leaders, she was sentenced to two months in Holloway Prison
. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
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 |
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 |
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