Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
contributed to the Cornhill a female perspective on parliamentary debate in The House
: ladies' gallery. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. chronology Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 5: 563-4 |
Literary responses | B. M. Croker | BMC
was charmed to see myself in print, but . . . awaited with terror the reviews. She hoped, in fact, that a certain great weekly journal (probably All the Year Round, formerly Household... |
Reception | Victoria Cross | This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons
debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour
MP George Lansbury
commended it as an extraordinary book. Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland. 1 |
politics | Charlotte Despard | The WFL was against violence or damage to property or individual politicians. They organized a protest in which a woman chained herself to the grille of the House of Commons
Ladies' Gallery, and they favoured... |
Publishing | Florence Dixie | The Times printed a letter from FD
about the rejection of a suffrage bill by the House of Commons
on 30 April, arguing that women must support only politicians who commit themselves in writing to... |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
published The Star to the Wise, which takes the form of a petition to the House of Commons
. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 101ff |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 3: 10 |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Ten days later the Public Advertiser printed his letter of 13 March to Lord Hawkesbury (later Lord Liverpool)
, President of the Board of Trade, offering material for the committee investigating the slave trade (which... |
Occupation | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | She attended important debates in the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons
, and had to read and write for her husband: I grappled with newspapers and Blue-books . . . and learned more... |
politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared... |
Reception | Monica Furlong | The original book and its successor sold extremely well, and the prayers became widely used. But a rude review in the Daily Telegraph led to questions in the House of Commons
, particularly about a... |
Textual Features | Maggie Gee | This is also a state-of-England novel, set in a modern Britain which is both both glitzy and frightening. Indeed, the level of looming threat in the story, both explicit and inexplicit, makes it quite hard... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Guest | CG
described her wedding in detail when she resumed writing her journal three weeks after the event. When she first spoke up in church she mumbled a little, but then got her voice under control... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
published a thriller, Murder in the House of Commons. Mavrogordato, E. E. “Murder in the House of Commons”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1550, p. 798. 798 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In gaining her seat she polled more votes than any woman standing for Labour. As some male Labour MPs wore red ties, she wore red shoes in the House of Commons
, and was soon... |
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