Staves, Susan. “Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: The Case of Ann Masterman”. Fetter’d or Free?: British Women Novelists 1670-1815, edited by Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield, Ohio University Press, 1986, pp. 169-85.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Ruth Rendell | The afternoon hours of the House of Lords
posed no conflict with RR
's morning schedule for writing, and she said that she found working on legislation was a continuing education in social issues which... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Antonia Fraser | AF
's father, born Francis Aungier (Frank) Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic whose subject was politics. He became the seventh Earl of Longford
in 1961, but he had already been made Baron Pakenham by Clement Attlee |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Lady Cynthia Charteris
married Herbert Asquith
, Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith
and Helen Asquith
. Herbert Henry Asquith (later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1852-1928, was at this time... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | Attending the House of Lords
on account of her friendship with Edith Summerskill, MB
took close account of the Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner. They began to correspond over legal matters in 1967, first met in... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Jane Vardill | AJV
's mother was born Agnes Birtwhistle
in 1752 at Skipton in Yorkshire, into a family which was a local power there and over the Scottish border at Gatehouse of Fleet. Anna Jane... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Marryat | FM
's niece Irene Marryat Parlby
(daughter of her brother Edward) married an Oxford-educated rancher in Alberta, Canada, and became one of the Famous Five women who precipitated the Persons Case decision of the House of Lords |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester's father, James Ley
, was a lawyer (in time a judge) who sat for many years as Member of Parliament for Westbury (under Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I). At the time of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Masterman Skinn | She, it appears, had petitioned first, alleging his impotence and cruelty. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Du Bois | The new wife (or alleged wife) of DDB
's father
bore him a son; years later the son's legitimacy and claim to the family titles were recognised in Ireland but denied by the House of Lords |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Scott | Caroline's father, born Archibald James Edward Stewart
, was the son of a duke's daughter (though this identity became a matter for dispute). He was one of two claimants to the landed estates of his... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Over the course of his lifetime, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
served in the House of Commons
for eighteen years and in the House of Lords
for sixteen. He became the Secretary of State for India and for... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothea Du Bois | In 1771, the House of Lords
, sitting on the question of the inheritance rights of her husband's illegitimate son, decided by one vote that her marriage licence was a forgery; however, it later emerged... |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character... |
| Leisure and Society | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | As a young man Byron lived a desultory and over-expensive life, though he was already deeply serious about his poetry. He took his seat in the House of Lords
in March 1809, the same month... |
| Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research, 1979, 2 vols. vol. 1 |
Timeline
18 December 1640: William Laud, Charles I's unpopular High...
National or international item
18 December 1640
William Laud
, Charles I
's unpopular High Church Archbishop of Canterbury, was arrested and charged with high treason. He was sent to the Tower of London in spring 1641.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
99, 373-4
6 January 1647: Mary Overton, arrested with her brother-in-law...
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6 January 1647
Mary Overton
, arrested with her brother-in-law Thomas
as they worked on a scandalous pamphlet,
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
479
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
476, 478-90
24 March 1670: The divorce of Lord Ros or Roos, on grounds...
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24 March 1670
The divorce of Lord Ros
or Roos, on grounds of his wife's adultery, passed the House of Lords
: the first such occasion since Henry VIII
, said John Evelyn
.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
538
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Clarendon Press, 1955, 6 vols.
3: 545-6 and n1
Stone, Lawrence. Road to Divorce: England 1530-1987. Oxford University Press, 1990.
309
3 June 1720: The House of Commons agreed to amendments...
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3 June 1720
The House of Commons
agreed to amendments from the Lords
to the Transportation of Felons Act, for banishing convicted criminals.
Journals of the House of Commons. Printed by order of the House of Commons.
19: 375
30 June 1724: The House of Lords began hearing William...
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30 June 1724
The House of Lords
began hearing William Yonge
's case for divorcing his wife.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
239-40
30 July 1746: Officers of the Manchester Regiment, which...
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30 July 1746
Officers of the Manchester Regiment
, which had fought for Prince Charles Edward
at the battle of Culloden, were hanged, drawn, and quartered in London.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
416
1753: Parliament brought in a bill for implementing...
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1753
Parliament
brought in a bill for implementing the first national census: it was rejected by the House of Lords
as an infringement on personal liberty.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
87
15 November 1763: The House of Lords learned of the existence...
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15 November 1763
The House of Lords
learned of the existence of the scurrilous, obscene Essay on Woman by Thomas Potter
and John Wilkes
, after its private, thirteen-copy edition for members of the Hell Fire Club
had...
After June 1773: Over protest from the House of Lords, the...
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After June 1773
Over protest from the House of Lords
, the India Regulating Act enacted the first direct British government intervention in the administration of India.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
9
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
75
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
354
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
43 (1773): 299
21 February 1774: The House of Lords decision Donaldson vs....
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21 February 1774
The House of Lords
decision Donaldson vs. Becket put an end to the legality (based in common law) of perpetual copyright. The case was provoked by the pirating activities of Alexander Donaldson
.
Nichol, Donald W. “Warburton (Not!) on copyright: Clearing up the Misattribution of An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
19
, No. 2, 1996, pp. 171-82. 171-82
Abbott, John L. “Review of William Zachs, The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, 1998”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
12
, 2001, pp. 495-03. 499
30 April 1776: John Wilkes, in a plan for parliamentary...
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30 April 1776
John Wilkes
, in a plan for parliamentary reform, put forward a proposal for universal male suffrage; Richard Price
had recently, in Observations on Civil Liberty, also proposed abolishing the House of Lords
.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
61-2
11 May 1778: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, died one month...
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11 May 1778
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
, died one month and four days after collapsing dramatically in the House of Lords
in the midst of an impassioned harangue opposing the independence of the USA.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
30 May 1782: The Duke of Portland, Lord Lieutenant of...
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30 May 1782
The Duke of Portland
, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, announced in the House of Lords
a new Bill of Rights for Ireland: the Dublin Parliament
was freed from the rule of the British Privy Council
19 December 1783: George III invited William Pitt the younger,...
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19 December 1783
George III
invited William Pitt
the younger, Tory leader, to form the government; Pitt
's previous ministry had been defeated on a vote in the House of Lords
.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
22
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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