Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's father was the sixth William Rathbone
in a Lancashire family which was Quaker
, Unitarian
, Liberal
and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After attending Cambridge University
, David Alfred Thomas
, Margaret's father, became a Liberal
Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 5 Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan. 5 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's father, Reginald Baliol Brett
, became the second Viscount Esher after his father
's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Illustrations catapulted HM
into fame: she was lionized by London society. She received flattering responses from Coleridge
and from her precursor as a political economist, Jane Marcet
. Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 212, 214 |
Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Opponents of ER
's plans included members of the Conservative
, Liberal
, and Labour
parties, though the Independent Labour Party
gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the... |
Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | In 1802 Henry Brougham
helped to found the Edinburgh Review; he became a regular contributor to this reigning Whig
periodical. To the first twenty numbers he contributed eighty articles on subjects ranging from science... |
Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed |
Occupation | Thomas Babington, first Baron Macaulay | TBBM
received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton
in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party
in Parliament
. There he took a role in passing the... |
politics | Maude Royden | Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party
; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party
's recent concern for it caused the society to change... |
politics | May Laffan | ML
had strong political views, and she frequently addressed political subjects in her novels. She was critical of English governance, and presented the misery and poverty of Irish peasants as worse than that of their... |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Henrietta Mendl (later GHS
) campaigned for the Liberals before the general election held on 7 February, in which her brother-in-law Sigi Mendl
was standing for the Liberals
at Stockton-on-Tees. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 69-70 |
politics | Constance Smedley | Living at Minchinhampton opened Smedley's eyes to the poverty and deprivation prevalent in the English countryside, and from a moderate Conservative she became an active Liberal
supporter. The Pageant of Progress, which charted the... |
politics | Thomas Moore | He supported the Whig Party
. These party sympathies were cemented through his friendship with Byron
, an ardent Whig. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 |
politics | Henrietta Müller | Her predecessors had argued that it was impossible for two women to oversee all education of girls in London (while boys had forty-seven men attending to their interests). Nevertheless HM
, flying her stripes with... |
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