Conservative Party

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Family and Intimate relationships Louisa Baldwin
A Worcestershire ironmaster, Alfred Baldwin also served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1892.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
LB and her husband were very close. Louisa's ill health only seemed to strengthen [his] devotion to her. The intensity...
Cultural formation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Burnet
Depending on her correspondent, EB writes like a scholar, an author, and a political lobbyist. To Trumbull, a moderate Tory , she paints the extremists in his party as a company of unjust & extravagant...
Occupation Barbara Cartland
BC was elected, as a Conservative member for Hatfield, to the HertfordshireCounty Council , where she served until 1964.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson.
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Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...
politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888...
Occupation John Wilson Croker
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 )...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text May Crommelin
After this, run-of-the-mill romance for a long time eclipses the potentially subversive hunting angle. Jack and Violet are of course attracted to each other; from the first he is curious to see . ....
Occupation Benjamin Disraeli
After several failed attempts, BD was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
When the Corn Laws were repealed, on 26 June 1846, he voiced outspoken criticism of Tory Prime...
politics Benjamin Disraeli
As a Conservative MP, BD took a marked interest in the Chartist movement and supported the Corn Laws. He was a socially reforming and a markedly imperialist Prime Minister.
death Benjamin Disraeli
His death date became known as Primrose Day, from his association with the spring flower which he was said to love.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
In November 1883 the Primrose League was formed as a Conservative organization.
Textual Features Emily Eden
EE 's preface explains that she first set this novel in what was then the present day: the pre-Reform-Bill, pre-railway era. She did not wish to update it in revising, so it is now set...
Occupation Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Bulwer served as an independent radical Member of Parliament, who in 1832 reformed himself out of a seat.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Following this (the First Reform Bill) he was immediately re-elected, and served until 1841. His initiatives during...
politics Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Bulwer-Lytton's jump from radical sympathies to the Tory party, coupled with his extravagant life and dandyism, made him a flamboyant and controversial figure.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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politics Emily Faithfull
EF joined the South Manchester Primrose Habitation , a Manchester association connected with the Primrose League , an organization which promoted Conservative Party principles.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
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Walker, Linda. “Party Political Women: A Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 165-91.
166, 170-1

Timeline

February 1809: The Quarterly Review was founded....

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February 1809

The Quarterly Review was founded.

20 January 1843: Daniel M'Naghten shot and mortally wounded...

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20 January 1843

Daniel M'Naghten shot and mortally wounded the private secretary of Sir Robert Peel , the Prime Minister: his trial for murder changed British legislation on pleas of insanity.

4 December 1845: The position of Peel's Conservative government...

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4 December 1845

The position of Peel 's Conservative government was severely shaken by a report in the Times that it was about to repeal the Corn Laws.

26 June 1846: The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert...

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26 June 1846

The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert Peel 's Conservative government, after much agitation by groups such as the Anti-Corn Law League and in face of the growing urgency of the Great Famine in Ireland.

30 June 1846: Lord John Russell (a Whig or Liberal, later...

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30 June 1846

Lord John Russell (a Whig or Liberal, later created first Earl Russell) was invited to form the UK government following the resignation of Sir Robert Peel , a Conservative .

3 November 1855: An advertisement marked the launch of the...

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3 November 1855

An advertisement marked the launch of the conservative (high Tory and Anglo-Catholic ), weeklySaturday Review; it focused on Politics, Literature, Science, and Art.

28 June 1866: Lord Derby, a Conservative, formed his third...

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28 June 1866

Lord Derby , a Conservative , formed his third government.

27 February 1868: Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative, became...

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27 February 1868

Benjamin Disraeli , a Conservative , became Prime Minister following the resignation of the Earl of Derby .

3 December 1868: Following the first general election after...

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3 December 1868

Following the first general election after the Second Reform Act of the previous year, William Gladstone , a Liberal , formed the government in succession to ConservativeBenjamin Disraeli .

20 February 1874: Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed...

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20 February 1874

Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed the government for a second time, in succession to Gladstone 's Liberal government.

1880s: Many local Women's Liberal Associations ...

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1880s

Many local Women's Liberal Association s formed.

23 April 1880: Liberal William Gladstone formed the UK's...

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23 April 1880

LiberalWilliam Gladstone formed the UK's government for the second time, following a Conservative disaster in the general election.

1884: Tory women were admitted to the newly founded...

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1884

Tory women were admitted to the newly founded Primrose League .

23 June 1885: The Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative)...

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23 June 1885

The Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative ) formed a minority government in Britain.

8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...

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8 June 1886

Gladstone 's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was defeated. The issue split his party, the Liberals , and eventually the Liberal-Unionists were absorbed into the Conservatives .

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