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politics | Robert Southey | 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... |
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 |
politics | Beatrice Webb | BW
was appointed (in one of the last acts of Arthur Balfour
's Conservative
government) to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Jane Howard | |
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. 139-41 |
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
)... |
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. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Rigby | 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. Rigby, Elizabeth. Mrs. Grote. John Murray. vi This presumably refers to... |
Literary Setting | Muriel Spark | It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. Spark, Muriel. The Girls of Slender Means. Macmillan. 1 |
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... |
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