Spark, Muriel. The Girls of Slender Means. Macmillan, 1963.
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Conservative Party
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Smedley | 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... |
| Author summary | Robert Southey | 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... |
| 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... |
| Literary Setting | Muriel Spark | It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. |
| Characters | Angela Thirkell | 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. qtd. in Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth, 1977. 129 |
| Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | 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. |
| Cultural formation | Alison Uttley | 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... |
| Author summary | Evelyn Waugh | 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... |
| 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/. |
Timeline
27 October 1931: Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected...
Building item
27 October 1931
Irene Ward
(later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives
to the British Parliament
, where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
363-4
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
14 November 1935: A general election was held in Britain. The...
National or international item
14 November 1935
A general election was held in Britain. The Conservative Party
polled most votes, and the National Coalition government was returned to power.
Kimber, Richard. “UK General Elections since 1832”. Richard Kimber’s Political Science Resources: British Politics: Election Information.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
288
28 May 1937: Neville Chamberlain, as Conservative leader...
National or international item
28 May 1937
Neville Chamberlain
, as Conservative
leader within the coalition government called National, became British Prime Minister following Stanley Baldwin
's resignation.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
52
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 382
26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...
National or international item
26 July 1945
The postwar general election put the Labour Party
in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee
became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison
, Ernest Bevin
, Hugh Dalton
, and Sir...
Early 1948: In the spring the Conservative Party established...
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Early 1948
In the spring the Conservative Party
established the Committee on Women's Questions
, chaired by Malcolm McCorquodale
.
Smith, Harold L. “The Politics of Conservative Reform: The Equal Pay for Equal Work Issue, 1945-1955”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
35
, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 401-15. 404
March 1949: The Committee on Women's Questions issued...
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March 1949
The Committee on Women's Questions
issued its report, A True Balance, which recommended that the Conservative Party
should pursue equal pay when it regained office.
Smith, Harold L. “The Politics of Conservative Reform: The Equal Pay for Equal Work Issue, 1945-1955”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
35
, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 401-15. 405
February 1951: The Bow Group was founded as an organisation...
National or international item
February 1951
The Bow Group
was founded as an organisation of younger members of the Conservative Party
, to carry out and publish research on political issues.
British Book News. British Council.
(1956): 475
The Bow Group. http://replay.web.archive.org/20080614014527/http://www.bowgroup.org/content.asp?pageid=8.
Late 1951: Winston Churchill's Conservative government...
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Late 1951
Winston Churchill
's Conservative
government decided to remove the last traces of wartime austerity by ending the rationing system: it took them until 1954 to complete this process with the end of meat rationing.
Roberts, Clayton, and David Roberts. A History of England: 1688 to the Present. Prentice-Hall, 1980.
820
Mount, Ferdinand. “The Doctrine of Unripe Time”. London Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2006, pp. 28-30.
28
6 April 1955: Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and...
National or international item
6 April 1955
Sir Anthony Eden
became Prime Minister and new leader of the Conservative Party
, following Churchill
's resignation.
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
36
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 408
26 May 1955: At the general election the Conservative...
National or international item
26 May 1955
At the general election the Conservative Party
increased its majority (it had a particular majority among women voters); the number of women MPs went up from seventeen to twenty-four.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
102
8 October 1959: In the general election the Conservatives...
National or international item
8 October 1959
In the general election the Conservatives
under Harold Macmillan
increased their majority. Margaret Thatcher
(who had first stood for the safe Labour seat of Dartford in 1950) was elected Conservative member of parliament for Finchley...
November 1959: At the Labour Party conference in the wake...
National or international item
November 1959
At the Labour Party
conference in the wake of Conservative
electoral victory, leader Hugh Gaitskell
proposed repealing Clause 4 of the party's constitution, the clause that set the goal of common ownership of the means...
July 1962: In a surprise move later called the night...
National or international item
July 1962
In a surprise move later called the night of the long knives, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
replaced a third of his Cabinet
.
Howard, Anthony. “The Unsolved Mystery of the Money Tree”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, p. 31.
31
15 October 1964: The Labour Party came to precarious power...
National or international item
15 October 1964
The Labour Party
came to precarious power in the general election by a majority of four seats; next day Harold Wilson
became Prime Minister.
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
45
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
492, 422
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
102
Greenslade, M. W. “Smethwick: Parliamentary History”. British History Online: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Staffordshire, Volume XVII, 1976.
Younge, Gary. “The colour of politics in Britain today”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 May 2005, p. 17.
17
19 June 1970: The day after a surprise Conservative victory...
National or international item
19 June 1970
The day after a surprise Conservative
victory in the general election, Edward Heath
formed the government (succeeding to the Labour
administration of Harold Wilson
).
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
50
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
492, 430
Kidd, Colin. “Brown v. Salmond”. London Review of Books, 26 Apr. 2007, pp. 6-8.
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