Liberal Party

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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...
politics Annie S. Swan
In the light of the First World War and its aftermath, ASS 's latent interest in politics came to life, taking the form of a desire to serve the League of Nations (whose later fall...
Publishing Arnold Bennett
Having begun as a journalist, AB remained one until the end of his career. In New York at the end of 1911, he sold essays and serials to periodicals ther..
Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett. Knopf.
186-7
During the first world...
Publishing Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL 's anonymous Sir Edward Grey, K. G. (a Liberal and then Foreign Secretary, later first Viscount Grey of Fallodon ), 1915, is in 2008 ascribed to her in the Bodleian Library but not in...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
In 1834 HM published Letter to the Deaf in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Around 1837 she was asked to take charge of an Economical Magazine at a good salary, which she thought opened the prospect...
Reception Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
143
In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...
Textual Features Sybille Bedford
This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or...
Textual Production Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Current Crisis, a pamphlet in support of Lord Melbourne 's Whigs after his ministry was dismissed in 1834, sold 30,000 copies in six weeks and...
Textual Production Caroline Chisholm
The full speech was printed the following day in Sydney's two prominent daily papers. The issue of Free Selection Before Survey was the central one in the upcoming state election. It was also the main...
Textual Production Constance Smedley
When CS first returned to dramatic work after her marriage it was as a collaborator on animated tableaux illustrating a political version of Mary had a Little Lamb (chosen for its connection with the woollen...

Timeline

11 November 1965: Ian Smith and the white rulers of the British...

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11 November 1965

Ian Smith and the white rulers of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) unilaterally declared independence; the UK declared the regime illegal but did not use force against it.

November 1978: The leader of the Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe,...

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November 1978

The leader of the Liberal Party , Jeremy Thorpe , was charged by a court at Minehead in Somerset with conspiracy to murder.

November 1981: Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain)...

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November 1981

Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain ) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party , to win a seat in Parliament : for Crosby, Lancashire.

12 October 2015: The film Suffragette opened at the London...

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12 October 2015

The filmSuffragette opened at the London Film Festival, written by Abi Morgan and directed by Sarah Gavron .

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