Parliament

MR was sensitive to the damage done by cultural stereotypes, prejudices, and assumptions about female sexuality. Much of her work argues defiantly against the sexual double standard and the widespread condemnation of female sexuality in...

LHS commemorated her visit to the state opening of the British parliament in a poem which, in covering Queen Victoria 's Speech from the Throne, addresses the place of women in public life.

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.

Once more only a single copy survives, at the New York Public Library . The Customs and Excise tax on salt imported from foreign countries, and into England from Scotland, was widely felt to be...

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...

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.

Following Priscilla Cotton but preceding Margaret Fell , DW defended women's preaching in A Call from God Out of Egypt, by His Son Christ the Light of Life, which is partly in verse (a...

LED dated her Samsons Legacie; it is now seen as a unity with her appeal to Parliament dated 3 January 1642.

She then went to Oxford, where Parliament was sitting, to show it to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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

The book's satire on parliament for its treatment of women was highly topical at a date two years after the new Divorce Act, three years after the Married Women's Property Committee was formed, and during...

This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes , Thomas Winter , and Robert (Robin) Catesby ; rulers such as King James

Since no translator's name appears, it is possible though by no means certain that MAH here wrote in French. She covers her subject—British democracy in its history, manifestations, and underlying nature—lucidly and succinctly. Part...

Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament 's refusal...

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...