House of Lords

Biographer Valerie Wallace notes that during the later years of her life, CFA and her husband had amassed a degree of wealth. William Alexander was also given a seat in the House of Lords .

This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not...

ESG says that she brought a case for divorce against her husband (which, had she won it, would have marked an important precedent), but that it was turned down by the House of Lords ...

FPC was sent by her father to London in March 1847 because of her brother Tom 's domestic crisis. His wife and cousin Azélie eloped with one of his college friends in mid-March, and a...

According to critic Susan Grogan , the book defies generic classification, blending elements of the political tract, the novel, and the statistical enquiry into social conditions.Promenades details FT 's various trips to England...

Its protagonist, Martin, Lord Nanther, is a professional biographer working on an ancestor, Henry, first Lord Nanther, who was one of Queen Victoria 's doctors and an expert on haemophilia. This eminent Victorian kept a...

The object of EMD 's satire is often upper-middle-class social mores. Styles of dress play a prominent role: those with artistic pretensions, for instance, are marked by their sandals and horn-rimmed glasses, sack dresses and...

Her essays in this journal reflect her wide literary and social knowledge; they include Days with Walt Whitman, Thearchy and Socialism, Down with the Lords, and Nietzsche.

Her title-page quotes a wish voiced on 1 December 1814 in the House of Lords that it were possible to summon Sobieski to attend the Congress of Vienna which was even then deciding the political...

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...

As Elianor James, EJ published To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (not her only broadsheet with this title) urging the House of Lords to pass an anti-Dissenter bill which forbade Occasional Conformity.

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.

The essay provides the text of the bill she had drafted by Alfred D. Hill before she threw her weight instead behind an amendment introduced by Lord Penzance in the Lords which was able to...

RR made her maiden speech in the House of Lords on the topic of literacy. She later spoke on gay rights and on homelessness.

She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a...