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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The intellectual influence of CM
's History was particularly important for the generation of American patriots who shaped the United States. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 184-5 |
| Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Virginia Woolf
read this novel soon after its publication, with fascinated disapproval. She felt that MAH
had energy and ability, and the wits to construct the method of telling a story, but that she had... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Bowles | An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey
's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to the House of Commons
. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 103 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Pankhurst | During the years 1987-92 and again in 1997, Jacqueline Mulhallen
toured England and Ireland with a one-woman show about SP
(at first intended just for schools in London's East End). The performance was accompanied by... |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character... |
| Friends, Associates | Ouida | In London, Ouida
took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel
, where in one night she entertained Robert Browning
, Oscar Wilde
, Robert Lytton
, and Lord Ronald Gower
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Linda Villari | LV
's father, James White
, was a silk merchant during her childhood and adolescence. Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Richardson | Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham
, became (at St Giles in the Fields in London) the second wife of Sir Thomas Richardson
, then Speaker of the House of Commons
and Chief Justice. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Thomas Richardson |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Over the course of his lifetime, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
served in the House of Commons
for eighteen years and in the House of Lords
for sixteen. He became the Secretary of State for India and for... |
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19 May 1920: The House of Commons passed a resolution...
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The House of Commons
passed a resolution stating that women should have equal access to employment and receive equal pay.
January 1924: Women Members of Parliament stopped wearing...
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January 1924
Women Members of Parliament stopped wearing hats in the House of Commons
. Nancy Astor
's hats had garnered more attention than her politics during her first years in the House.
July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...
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July 1928
Jennie Lee
, a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour
candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons
as its youngest member in a by-election in February...
December 1929: The Duchess of Atholl spoke in the House...
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December 1929
The Duchess of Atholl
spoke in the House of Commons
on the issue of female circumcision or genital mutilation among the Kikuyu people of Kenya.
27 October 1931: Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected...
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Irene Ward
(later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives
to the British Parliament
, where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.
31 May 1933: A meeting of women's organizations (sponsored...
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31 May 1933
A meeting of women's organizations (sponsored by the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship
) in the House of Commons
condemned the Nazi
policy of barring women from employment in the German government.
1 April 1936: Eight of the nine women Members of Parliament...
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1 April 1936
Eight of the nine women Members of Parliament in the House
supported Ellen Wilkinson
's amendment seeking to provide equal pay for women in the civil service.
4 June 1940: Winston Churchill made one of his most famous...
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4 June 1940
Winston Churchill
made one of his most famous war speeches in the House of Commons
.
10 March 1943: The House of Commons debated whether Wrens...
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10 March 1943
The House of Commons
debated whether Wrens (members of the Women's Royal Naval Service
) should continue to be restricted to jobs ashore.
May 1947: The housewives debate was held in the House...
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The housewives debate was held in the House of Commons
in which male Members of Parliament spoke against keeping wartime British Restaurants
open and in favour of wives cooking for men at home.
31 May 1948: Labour member Florence Paton (1891-1976),...
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31 May 1948
Labour
member Florence Paton
(1891-1976), acting as temporary Chairman [sic] of Committees, became the first woman to preside over the House of Commons
.
16 May 1952: The House of Commons voted to approve the...
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The House of Commons
voted to approve the motion that the government should announce an early and definite date for the commencement of equal pay in the public service.
3 July 1956: Bessie Braddock, for many years Labour MP...
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3 July 1956
Bessie Braddock
, for many years Labour
MP for the inner-city seat of Liverpool Exchange, made one of her grabs for the limelight by firing unloaded air-rifles on the floor of the House of Commons
.
4 September 1957: The Wolfenden Commission published its Report...
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4 September 1957
The Wolfenden Commission
published its Report on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution which recommended the decriminalization of homosexual acts occurring in private between consenting adults over 21, but suggested stricter regulation of prostitution.
4-5 July 1967: The Homosexual Law Reform Bill passed its...
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4-5 July 1967
The Homosexual Law Reform Bill passed its third and final reading in the House of Commons
: scheduled for the late-night slot on 4 July, it passed when 101 supporters remained for the final vote...
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