Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
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politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The Committee of Privileges
ruled that on the basis of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, Viscountess Rhondda
should be allowed to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Company. 32: 1040 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 82-3 Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora. 143 |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The parliamentary Committee of Privileges
, under the directorship of Lord Birkenhead
, reversed its earlier decision and refused Viscountess Rhondda
the right to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 85-6 |
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 |
politics | Mary Delany | A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the House of Lords
: they included Mary Pendarves (later MD
). Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press. 2: 135-7 |
politics | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords
, organized a petition... |
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... |
Publishing | Melesina Trench | |
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 |
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... |
Reception | Martin Ross | A passage from the book was read in the House of Lords
in 1907, in support of a proposal to build a Channel Tunnel. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber. 147 |
Textual Features | Lucy Knox | The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of... |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | 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... |
Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | In the copyright row provoked by unauthorised reprints by the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson
, CM
began by asking what practices would benefit literature, and concluded that publishers needed to be able to count on... |
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... |
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