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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | 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... |
Literary responses | Naomi Mitchison | 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... |
politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | 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... |
Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Following the death of her husband
, JFLW
wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom
, hoping he could help secure her a government pension. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 143 |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Heyrick | 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... |
Characters | Catherine Gore | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Gawthorpe | 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 |
politics | Kate Parry Frye | 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... |
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. 161 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 |
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. |
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. 21 |
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 | 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. |
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. |
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