Conservative Party

In the postwar general election the former radical KPF supported the Conservatives. After the Labour victory she blamed such hardships as the introduction of bread rationing on this awful government; she also canvassed for...

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

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...

She wrote on the important local stocking industry in A Letter of Remonstrance from an Impartial Public to the Hosiers of Leicester, 1825, which supports the workers in a strike. She addressed the topic...

In 1943 EJH got a steadier job than she had yet had, as continuity announcer with the BBC . In this job she read news bulletins, announced concerts, selected and played records. Later, while visiting...

Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension. In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...

The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men...

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...

EP was violently attacked by a group of young Liberal s after an Independent Labour Party victory in Mid-Devon; she later learned that a local Conservative had been killed in the mélee.

EP sought nomination as the Conservative candidate for Whitechapel and St George's in the East End of London, a poor constituency, and a hard one for a Conservative candidate to win. Her move to...

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...

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 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.

But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), faction, and rebellion (imaged as...

The book charts the gradual, up-and-down, always painful but inexorable self-emancipation of these children. Even the naturally conformist Catharine, still living with her parents at the end of the book, is by then much involved...