House of Commons

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...

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...

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.

HB 's high standing with parents and generations of children in Britain, Europe, the USA, and the British Commonwealth began to be shaken by allegations of racism while she was still alive, though she found...

This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour MP George Lansbury commended it as an extraordinary book.

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, only to disagree. I confess that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...