Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Sharp | She wrote to explain that she was unlikely to be able to supply the paper with leading articles for some time (since she would be in prison), but more importantly to reproach Scott with supporting... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | G. B. Stern | She begins by quoting in its entirety Robert Browning
's poem entitled Memorabilia, which as she observes is better known by its opening line, Ah, did you once see Shelley
plain? Stern, G. B. . And did he stop and speak to you?. Henry Regnery. prelims |
Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
presented a memorandum from the Women's Industrial League
to PM David Lloyd George
demanding a restructuring of post-war employment policies, to include women in high-paying, skilled industries. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 65-6 |
Textual Production | Mona Caird | The WSPU intended to take this action because the Federation meeting, scheduled for 6 December, was to be addressed by Lloyd George
, and the WSPU had made a general resolution to seek publicity for... |
Textual Features | Rebecca West | Sketches of writers, artists, politicians, and public figures in the collection include Clemence Dane
, Joseph Conrad
, Lloyd George
, and Winston Churchill
. Hutchinson, G. Evelyn. A Preliminary List of the Writings of Rebecca West, 1912-1951. Yale University Library. 4 |
Textual Features | Ada Leverson | In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers... |
Textual Features | Clara Codd | It provides a detailed history of her life so far. Focusing on her work with Theosophy, she also gives details about her upbringing in North Devon and her aversion to the fear-inducing side of Christianity... |
Reception | Rosita Forbes | Signatures were gathered for a presentation volume for RF
; early signatories were the Prince of Wales
and the Prime Minister
. The presentation was made at a reception attended by peers, peeresses, and bishops... |
Publishing | Annie S. Swan | Sir William Robertson Nicoll
, friend of ASS
and power behind the The British Weekly: A Journal of Social and Christian Progress (which was published at London by Hodder and Stoughton
), proposed to her... |
politics | Dorothy Wellesley | By the time DW
wrote her autobiography she was a nostalgic reactionary, regretting the days of powerful great families in great country houses, when the servants arrived at morning prayers in order of precedence, with... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
marched in a London procession in support of the Conciliation Bill (which had just been dropped from parliament's schedule by Lloyd George
for the second year running); she urged both militants and constitutionalists alike... |
politics | Margaret Kennedy | MK
's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith
(1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was... |
politics | Constance Lytton | CL
, with ten other militant suffragettes, was detained after causing a disturbance at a visit of David Lloyd George
to Newcastle. The word suffragette, despite its apparently demeaning diminutive, was at the... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | Later, from 1910 to 1913, she was secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU
. She was present (as reported by Violet Hunt
) at the suffrage meeting in the Albert Hall in early... |
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