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House of Commons
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Textual Production | Melesina Trench | 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... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords
and Commons
for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ
again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | After John Profumo
resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons
about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC
commissioned BB
for a talk... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
Timeline
14 January 1766: William Pitt appealed to the House of Commons...
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14 January 1766
William Pitt
appealed to the House of Commons
to treat America as a kindly, paternalistic husband would treat a wife.
4 February-13 April 1769: Disputes occurred over John Wilkes's right...
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4 February-13 April 1769
Disputes occurred over John Wilkes
's right to take his seat in the House of Commons
, from which he had been expelled for the first time in 1764.
After March 1770: Following representations by merchants to...
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After March 1770
Following representations by merchants to the House of Commons
, the duties on colonial trade with America imposed in 1767 were repealed—all except that of threepence a pound on tea.
6 February 1772: The House of Commons rejected a petition...
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6 February 1772
The House of Commons
rejected a petition to drop the Creeds and Thirty-Nine Articles as requisites to Anglican
belief.
1778: The House of Commons barred women from attending...
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1778
The House of Commons
barred women from attending debates to listen from the gallery, as they had often done until then.
6 April 1780: The Radical cause in Britain was advanced...
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6 April 1780
The Radical cause in Britain was advanced when the House of Commons
passed a motion by John Dunning (later Baron Ashburton)
, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to...
27 February 1782: The House of Commons, on news of the British...
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27 February 1782
The House of Commons
, on news of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, urged George III
to end the war with the United States.
17 June 1783: Sir Cecil Wray, a maverick independent politician...
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17 June 1783
Sir Cecil Wray
, a maverick independent politician and reformer, presented in the House of Commons
a Quaker petition for the abolition of slavery.
1-2 July 1784: Famine in the Shetland Islands was brought...
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1-2 July 1784
Famine in the Shetland Islands was brought to the attention of the House of Commons
.
5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...
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5 November 1788-10 March 1789
George III
's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales
.
1789: During the year following passage of the...
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1789
During the year following passage of the Slave-Trade Regulation Bill, the House of Commons
postponed until next session a decision about abolition; meanwhile a push for regulation as opposed to abolition was gaining ground.
2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...
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2 March 1790
Charles James Fox
proposed in the House of Commons
the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters
). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).
19 April 1791: Wilberforce's motion to abolish the slave-trade...
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19 April 1791
Wilberforce
's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons
.
2 April 1792: William Wilberforce moved once again in the...
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2 April 1792
William Wilberforce moved once again in the House of Commons
for complete abolition of the slave trade. The ensuing all-night debate ended in a victory, 230 votes to 85.
11 May 1792: Fox again proposed in the House of Commons...
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11 May 1792
Fox
again proposed in the House of Commons
that civil rights should be extended to Dissenters
; Burke, who had defended Dissenters in the past, furiously disagreed.
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