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politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After receiving her title, MHVR
was still barred from attending proceedings of the House of Lords
. When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed in 1919, there was still no progress to admit into... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 87 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 87 |
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 |
Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM
again became involved politically when the House of Commons
was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8... |
Occupation | Mary, Countess Cowper | She loved her job, or her career. When in 1716 her husband was considering retiring from court and living in the country, she generously offered if he wished to quit too, and what was more... |
politics | Caroline Norton | Thomas Noon Talfourd
gave notice early in 1837 of a House of Commons
motion on this subject, and the Bill was printed. But immediately after this CN
's husband relented and allowed her to see... |
Textual Production | Alicia Tyndal Palmer | 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... |
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... |
Reception | Mary Prince | The Rev. James Curtin
, the missionary who had baptised MP
, testified to a House of Lords
committee that cruelty to slaves was almost unknown in Antigua. Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge. 378n31 |
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... |
Reception | Ruth Rendell | The year after being made a CBE, RR
was invited to sit in the House of Lords
as a Life Peer; she took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh
. The Babergh District was created... |
politics | Ruth Rendell | As a member of the House of Lords
, RR
took the work (speaking as well as attending) seriously. She said: At first I felt absolutely trapped and imprisoned. . . . But gradually you... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ruth Rendell | 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... |
Textual Production | Ruth Rendell | RR
made her maiden speech in the House of Lords
on the topic of literacy. She later spoke on gay rights and on homelessness. Brooks, Libby. “Ruth Rendell: Dark lady of whodunnits”. The Guardian, pp. 16-19. 18 |
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