Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Conservative Party
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Louisa Baldwin | A Worcestershire ironmaster, Alfred Baldwin also served as a Conservative
Member of Parliament from 1892. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Cultural formation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The father's side of MEB
's family were landowners with a well-established estate at Skisdon Lodge, St Kew, Cornwall, though her father had trained to earn his living. In an interview in 1888 she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Burnet | |
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 |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
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... |
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
)... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Crommelin | 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 . .... |
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. |
death | Benjamin Disraeli | His death date became known as Primrose Day, from his association with the spring flower which he was said to love. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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 | 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 |
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 |
Timeline
February 1809: The Quarterly Review was founded....
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February 1809
The Quarterly Review was founded.
20 January 1843: Daniel M'Naghten shot and mortally wounded...
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20 January 1843
Daniel M'Naghten
shot and mortally wounded the private secretary of Sir Robert Peel
, the Prime Minister: his trial for murder changed British legislation on pleas of insanity.
4 December 1845: The position of Peel's Conservative government...
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4 December 1845
The position of Peel
's Conservative
government was severely shaken by a report in the Times that it was about to repeal the Corn Laws.
26 June 1846: The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert...
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26 June 1846
The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert Peel
's Conservative
government, after much agitation by groups such as the Anti-Corn Law League
and in face of the growing urgency of the Great Famine in Ireland.
30 June 1846: Lord John Russell (a Whig or Liberal, later...
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30 June 1846
Lord John Russell
(a Whig or Liberal, later created first Earl Russell) was invited to form the UK government following the resignation of Sir Robert Peel
, a Conservative
.
3 November 1855: An advertisement marked the launch of the...
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3 November 1855
An advertisement marked the launch of the conservative (high Tory
and Anglo-Catholic
), weeklySaturday Review; it focused on Politics, Literature, Science, and Art.
28 June 1866: Lord Derby, a Conservative, formed his third...
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28 June 1866
Lord Derby
, a Conservative
, formed his third government.
27 February 1868: Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative, became...
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27 February 1868
Benjamin Disraeli
, a Conservative
, became Prime Minister following the resignation of the Earl of Derby
.
3 December 1868: Following the first general election after...
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3 December 1868
Following the first general election after the Second Reform Act of the previous year, William Gladstone
, a Liberal
, formed the government in succession to ConservativeBenjamin Disraeli
.
20 February 1874: Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed...
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20 February 1874
Conservative
leader Benjamin Disraeli
formed the government for a second time, in succession to Gladstone
's Liberal
government.
1880s: Many local Women's Liberal Associations ...
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1880s
Many local Women's Liberal Association
s formed.
23 April 1880: Liberal William Gladstone formed the UK's...
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23 April 1880
LiberalWilliam Gladstone
formed the UK's government for the second time, following a Conservative
disaster in the general election.
1884: Tory women were admitted to the newly founded...
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1884
Tory women were admitted to the newly founded Primrose League
.
23 June 1885: The Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative)...
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23 June 1885
8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...
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8 June 1886
Gladstone
's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was defeated. The issue split his party, the Liberals
, and eventually the Liberal-Unionists were absorbed into the Conservatives
.
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