Conservative Party

Like its predecessor, this novel recalls Jane Austen , but this time the plot (at least the earlier part) is closer to that of Sense and Sensibility. Marcia, a sensible elder sister, makes a...

AT ended her story with a reference to the evacuation from Dunkirk in 27 May-3 June 1940, which had taken place just before she handed in what she called ironically My Great War Novel.

ER was born to presumably white, English, middle-class parents. She was a practising Anglican and leaned towards High Church doctrine. She became a staunch Tory who frequently published articles in the Conservative Quarterly Review.

The father's side of MEB 's family were landowners with a well-established estate at Skisdon Lodge, St Kew, Cornwall, though her father had trained to earn his living. In an interview in 1888 she...

She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...

His death date became known as Primrose Day, from his association with the spring flower which he was said to love. In November 1883 the Primrose League was formed as a Conservative organization.

A Worcestershire ironmaster, Alfred Baldwin also served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1892. LB and her husband were very close. Louisa's ill health only seemed to strengthen [his] devotion to her. The intensity...

MG 's father, John Gawthorpe , was a leather currier, who worked at a tannery or leather factory. He was also a church choirmaster, Sunday-school superintendent, cricket-team captain and later an agent for the Conservative Party

Opponents of ER 's plans included members of the Conservative , Liberal , and Labour parties, though the Independent Labour Party gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the...

Stalwarts of the Labour Party (where NM 's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an...

It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. It is a time, not quite peace and not quite war, between two armistice celebrations...

The preface notes that the work was ready for publication in the Spring, but delayed by the publisher 's wish, on account of the agitated state of the political atmosphere.

JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...

After several failed attempts, BD was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. When the Corn Laws were repealed, on 26 June 1846, he voiced outspoken criticism of Tory Prime...

Bulwer served as an independent radical Member of Parliament, who in 1832 reformed himself out of a seat. Following this (the First Reform Bill) he was immediately re-elected, and served until 1841. His initiatives during...