Parliament

MC published Twelve Humble Proposals, a tract dedicated to the Barebones Parliament ; it was apparently her last new publication.

DSCS 's father, Sir Robert Sidney, later second Earl of Leicester , was born on 1 December 1595, and became the Earl of Leicester on his father's death in 1626. During his...

The title of this essay was invoked in Parliament ary debate over women's suffrage in 1875.

D'Eon, whom Macaulay respected, was sometimes linked with her as a fellow learned lady by those who thought him to be female. On June 6, 1771 the Public Advertiser carried a spoof report that CM

The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and...

She wrote it in haste, to catch the date when the issue was being debated in parliament . It has been included in several recent anthologies, and (along with HM 's The Sorrows...

From the age of twenty he held a positon at Court and a seat in Parliament . After becoming an earl he served in the Privy Council and as British ambassador at The Hague...

TBBM received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party in Parliament . There he took a role in passing the...

QV opened Parliament , witnessed by many including Lady Morgan , who admired her composure and oral delivery.

This was Fielding's last production. Next day Sir Robert Walpole introduced into parliament the Licensing Act , which killed this company and EH 's stage career.

After several failed attempts, BD was elected to Parliament as Conservative member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. When the Corn Laws were repealed, on 26 June 1846, he voiced outspoken criticism of Tory Prime...

Also in the 1840s, he was among those commissioned by Parliament to inquire into the conditions resulting from industrialisation. Such Blue Books reported on myriad aspects of the life of the nation. In the case...

ER was elected to Parliament , where she served as the Independent representative of the English Universities. She held this post, through several comfortable election victories, until her death in 1946.

Between 1923 and January 1924, she used this position to urge the Church to revise its marriage service by removing implications of female subordination in marriage, specifically the command that the wife obey the husband...

MG was arrested for the first time, for suffrage action in disrupting the opening of Parliament in London; together with many suffrage leaders, she was sentenced to two months in Holloway Prison .