Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Greater London Authority
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Berta Ruck | BR
studied art first at Lambeth School of Art, then, on a London County Council
scholarship, at the Slade School of Art
in London, where she was taught by Henry Tonks
. She then... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Philippa attended Newnham College
(the women's college founded by the efforts of her parents) and was marked higher than any other final-year student in mathematics at Cambridge
in 1890, embarrassing the university since the title... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Kate Parry Frye | KPF
's father, Frederick Charlwood Frye
, attended Saffron Walden Grammar School
and worked as a clerk and grocer. During the late nineteenth century his grocery business did very well, expanding into a chain, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | Three years after the death of her first husband
, EN
married Thomas Terry Tucker
(known as the Skipper), a marine engineer and captain of the London County Council
ferry at Woolwich. |
| Occupation | Alison Uttley | After teacher training at Cambridge, Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) took up a post as Junior Science Mistress at a London County Council
Secondary School in Fulham in suburban London. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986. 67 |
| Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | The settlement's school for disabled children, its play schools, and summer schools were an enormous success, and were eventually copied world-wide. As a tribute to the invaluable role played by MAW
in its foundation, the... |
| Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
| Occupation | Willa Muir | She designed the curriculum to incorporate the students' knowledge of textiles into academic lessons in history, English, and geography. She also designed practical courses in hand-loom weaving, fashion-drawing, pattern-designing, colouring. Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press, 1968. 51 |
| politics | Gillian Allnutt | In the ten houses which comprised Richmond Avenue Housing
(off the Caledonian Road) GA
and the other members of the co-op lived as squatters and then as short-life tenants under the Greater London Council |
| politics | Laura Ormiston Chant | LOC
spoke at a meeting of the Licensing Committee of London County Council
to oppose the renewal of the Empire Theatre
's licence. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke, 2002. 96 |
| politics | Laura Ormiston Chant | Later assessments of LOC
's social purity work have likewise been mixed. Heloise Brown
describes her as advocating from an Evangelical feminist position ’The Truest Form of Patriotism’: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press, 2003. 122 ’The Truest Form of Patriotism’: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902. Manchester University Press, 2003. 121 |
| politics | Kate Parry Frye | The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF
's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party
: her mother
expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association
meetings hosted in the... |
| politics | Lucille Iremonger | She was a Conservative in politics (like her husband), and belonged successively to the Conservative Association
s of Ilford (his constituency, where she was the association's vice-president) and Norwood in South London. She was a... |
| Reception | Kathleen E. Innes | The book's popularity undoubtedly came from its having been approved for use in London County Council
schools. KEI
, a former schoolteacher, still had connections with teachers and knew what teaching materials were needed. |
| Residence | Violet Hunt | VH
lived at South Lodge until her death. The Greater London Council
placed a commemorative blue plaque there, but as of 2002, it acknowledged South Lodge only as one of the residences of VH
's... |
Timeline
1855
The Metropolitan Board of Works
, an indirectly elected body, was set up to supervise public infrastructure in London.
1866
The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme (believed to be the first in the world) for setting up commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people.
Quinn, Ben. “Plaque blues. Cuts hit heritage scheme”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
November 1888
The Society for Promoting Women as County Councillors
was founded.
17 January 1889
Supported by the Society for Promoting Women as County Councillors
, Margaret, Lady Sandhurst
, and Jane Cobden
became the first women to be elected to the newly formed London County Council
.
January 1889
Emma Cons
became the first woman to be nominated and to serve as alderman (one step up from a councillor) on the new London County Council
, on the basis of her housing activism and...
18 March 1889
As a result of the suit of Beresford Hope
v. Sandhurst, Margaret, Lady Sandhurst
, lost her position on the London County Council
.
13 July 1899
The London Government Act created twenty-eight Metropolitan Borough Councils to replace the forty-one parish vestries and district boards of works in the capital. Women, previously eligible for election as vestrywomen, were denied eligibility for the...
1906
1907
The London County Council
banned stage tableaus or living pictures (erotic in content), and in their place the Palace Theatre
engaged Maud Allan
as a solo dancer.
5 March 1910
Two women, Henrietta Adler
and Susan Lawrence
, were elected to the London County Council
for Hackney Central in the first LCC elections since the Qualification of Women Act of 28 August 1907 allowed any...
17 July 1922
Ralph Knott
designed London County Hall
for the London County Council, which was inaugurated on this day.
1963
The London County Council
, created in 1889, was replaced by the Greater London Council
or GLC.
December 1964
The Greater London Council
began to offer family planning advice to unmarried people.
Early 1975
Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company
was founded as a result of plans by a London co-operative community arts resource centre, Inter-Action
, for a season of gay plays to follow their successful women's season.
1986
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
abolished the Greater London Council
or GLC (then headed by socialist maverick Ken Livingstone
), leaving London as the world's largest city with no central metropolitan authority.