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She remained a staunch feminist and patriot. As she had recognized two decades earlier, times of war did allow for social change and improvement, despite the extensive, brutal devastation of armed conflict. On 20 March...

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. For example, it...

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...

EL met Charles Bradlaugh after writing to him about a review of her second novel, Donovan, published in his National Reformer. She made three contributions to the Election Fund set up to...

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 .

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.

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...

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...

JFLW was no democrat, but an ardent Irish nationalist (as was her future husband). She was deeply discouraged by the failure of the 1848 uprising. She was supportive of the Young Irelanders and published in...

EPL led a deputation of more than 200 women to the House of Commons to protest Asquith 's proposed Reform or Manhood Suffrage Bill. On the way some suffragists began breaking windows, ending the militancy truce.

FPC was concerned about women's material conditions as well as formal rights. She laboured to obtain protection for battered women: an opponent in other contexts of flogging, she believed that the only effective remedy for...

Dinah Mulock contributed to the Cornhill a female perspective on parliamentary debate in The House : ladies' gallery.

A couple of years after this BH began a steady flow of letters to the Times on the topic of women's suffrage: the last of these, written on 2 February 1927, was the plea or...

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...

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...