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Material Conditions of Writing | Edna Lyall | She was helped with research for this book by Justin McCarthy
, a member of parliament who regularly escorted her to the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons
to hear debates on Ireland, and... |
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 | 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... |
Occupation | Freya Stark | FS
was sent to the United States to defend publicly the White Paper of 1939 in which the British government recommended a limitation on the number of Jews permitted to immigrate to Palestine. Some... |
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... |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In 1866 JSM
presented to the House of Commons
with parliament's first major suffrage petition. The petition, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Emily Davies
, and signed by... |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In 1867 Mill presented the House
with a second petition in support of women's suffrage, signed by more than twice as many women as the first. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 163 |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was the object of misogynistic attacks, personal and professional, throughout her parliamentary career. When she was absent from a House of Commons
debate in June 1942, someone called A. McLaren commented, I see that... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The final shape of the bill constituted a particular triumph for Rathbone. Though comparatively liberal, the Beveridge Plan was based on the paradigm of the male breadwinner and the dependent wife. Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. Cambridge University Press. 343 |
politics | Mary Carpenter | The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC
in the welfare of the poor and uneducated. In 1831 the House of Lords
defeated... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | She ran this last time because she believed that the House of Commons
still needed a strong voice to further family allowances and measures for refugees. Also, she wrote that there were too few women... |
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... |
politics | Edna Lyall | EL
met Charles Bradlaugh
after writing to him about a review of her second novel, Donovan, published in his National Reformer. Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood. 28 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | On the day that Parliament reconvened, EPL
was among the eleven suffragists famously arrested for staging a demonstration for female suffrage at the House of Commons
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 165-7 Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin. 49 |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
led a deputation of suffragists to the House of Commons
to press the issue of female suffrage on Prime Minister Asquith
, who had neglected the subject in his King's speech at the opening... |
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