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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 | Monica Furlong | The original book and its successor sold extremely well, and the prayers became widely used. But a rude review in the Daily Telegraph led to questions in the House of Commons
, particularly about a... |
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 |
Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
contributed to the Cornhill a female perspective on parliamentary debate in The House
: ladies' gallery. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. chronology Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 5: 563-4 |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | 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... |
Publishing | Florence Dixie | 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... |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | 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... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | In the House of Commons
, ER
opposed legislation that lowered married women's health insurance benefits. Wives received less than single women, while both groups received and contributed less than men. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 85 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | In the House of Commons
, ER
spoke against the government's Incitement to Disaffection Bill, which, she declared, would tear a hole in British liberties through which an elephant may get through [sic]. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 129 |
politics | Mary Stott | MS
attended the House of Commons
to hear the abortive attempt to get a second reading of the Anti-Discrimination Bill. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 130 |
politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Strongly anti-armament, LOM
persuaded her Liberal MP husband, Philip Morrell
, to speak in the House of Commons
against Britain's entry into the coming war (later called the Great War, later still World War I). Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux. 195-6 |
politics | Stella Benson | After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB
sided with Flora Annie Steel
in a Women Writers' Suffrage League
dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | In the same month that the House of Commons
was officially informed of the Nazi
holocaust of Jews and other minorities, ER
began to pressure the government for a formal debate on the catastrophe. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 135 |
politics | Ray Strachey | RS
volunteered as parliamentary secretary and advisor to Lady Astor
, the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons
. Lady Astor was elected on 1 December 1919. Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 287 |
politics | Annie Besant | The Monster Petition against parliamentary grants to royal personages Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 101 Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 101 |
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