Conservative Party

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.

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 . ....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...