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BW was appointed (in one of the last acts of Arthur Balfour 's Conservative government) to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law.

EW was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He...

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...

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.

After The Duke's Daughter, AT was delighted in Happy Returns, 1952 (Happy Return in the USA), to celebrate the Conservative return to power at the general election of 26 October 1951.

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...

Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth and Coleridge . In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly...

Early in life he embraced the egalitarian principles of the French Revolution and sought with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge to raise money for political ventures through writing. He later rejected his youthful idealism and...

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...

Commoners' Rights is a record of the warfare that started up and raged about Minchinhampton Common, ending in its ultimate purchase by the Nation. The cause of the commoners, first taken up by the...

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...

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.

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...

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.