House of Commons

During a House of Commons debate on Indian rule, ER asserted that the only safeguard against [Indian women's] oppression was to give the women themselves a say.

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.

GHS 's first suffrage meeting, in fact, became a deputation heading for the House of Commons , where it was met by violence. She dreamed about the event that night and joined the WSPU next...

ES spent a night in a police-station cell en route for another sojourn in Holloway , having been arrested along with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Lady Sybil Smith outside the House of Commons .

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...

While FS 's lecture tour of the USA on behalf of the British government sparked policy debates in the House of Commons , the American press was fascinated by the female Lawrence of Arabia.

MS 's father, John Stockdale , having been acquitted for publishing a libel (attacking the House of Commons over Warren Hastings ), himself printed The Whole Proceedings on the Trial . . . against John Stockdale.

MS attended the House of Commons to hear the abortive attempt to get a second reading of the Anti-Discrimination Bill.

RS volunteered as parliamentary secretary and advisor to Lady Astor , the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons .

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...

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...

It appears from the only two extant library listings of this tract or broadside (in the New York Public Library and the University of Texas at Austin ) that the title was added in Trench's...

With the help of a Turkish diplomat she met while in London, FT attended sessions in the British House of Commons and House of Lords disguised as a Turkish gentleman.

According to critic Susan Grogan , the book defies generic classification, blending elements of the political tract, the novel, and the statistical enquiry into social conditions.Promenades details FT 's various trips to England...

During her trip she frequented the House of Commons where, in the Ladies' Gallery, she listened to parliamentary debates.