Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67.
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Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC
was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a... |
Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM
again became involved politically when the House of Commons
was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
's boldness of thought and vigour of style made readers suspect that this pamphlet was the work of a man; it was quoted as such in the House of Commons
. Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67. 49 |
Textual Features | Katherine Cecil Thurston | The novel explores a theme central to KCT
's work: that of hidden or reinvented identity, or the hero masquerading as someone he is not. In this plot-driven melodrama with elements of sensationalism, John Loder... |
Textual Features | Elinor James | She opens with the pious wish that the Holy Spirit may guide the lords, and closes by quoting Queen Anne
. She hopes the Lords will measure up to the Commons
, who have been... |
Textual Features | Judith Kazantzis | Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743... |
Textual Features | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
's opinions are always idiosyncratic and interesting, but she is not a feminist. She quotes Lucy Aikin
on being wounded by the privileged insolence of masculine discourse, Kelty, Mary Ann. The Solace of a Solitaire. Trübner and Co. 332 |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper
of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one... |
Textual Features | Edna Lyall | As readers recognized at once, Luke Raeburn, the embattled atheist in this book, noticeably resembles the politician Charles Bradlaugh
, who was excluded from taking his seat in the House of Commons
after repeatedly being... |
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... |
Textual Features | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
and her husband dedicated their first issue to the brave women who to-day are fighting for freedom: to the noble women who all down the ages kept the flag flying and looked forward to... |
Textual Features | Helen Taylor | The essay considers the suffrage petition presented by Mill
in 1866 to the House of Commons
. While examining the petition, HT
gives particular attention to the English constitution and laws that allow women to... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
opens by reminding her readers that although the slave trade had been abolished in Britain and its possessions seventeen years before this, and although trading in slaves was now a felony for British subjects... |
Reception | Sylvia Pankhurst | A permanent, visible memorial to SP
has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline
and Christabel
have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons
; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist... |
Reception | Katherine Chidley | The House of Commons
voted to forbid anyone except ordained clergy to preach publicly or to write against church government: a specific target of this vote was KC
, and a general target was women. Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 2, pp. 213-33. 216 |
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