“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Parliament
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
ran (unsuccessfully) for Parliament
in Fulham as a member of the Radical Alliance
. Kimber, Richard. Political Science Resources. http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/. |
| Textual Features | Muriel Box | Details of the changed world include the telecommunication by screen image, extinction of smoking, and a three-day weekend and four-day work week. Houses are made of toughened glass and cars are solar-charged, self-renewing, and circular... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | This poem both expressed and helped further to fuel the indignation felt by the educated public over the revelation of children's working conditions in the Reports to Parliament
of the Children's Employment Commission
. (One... |
| Dedications | Mary Cary | MC
published Twelve Humble Proposals, a tract dedicated to the Barebones Parliament
; it was apparently her last new publication. 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. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Features | Sarah Chapone | This 70-page pamphlet, addressed to Parliament
, exhibits detailed knowledge of the law and of recent cases involving heiress marriage, adultery, etc. SC
finds the English law harsher to women than either ancient Roman or... |
| Textual Production | Katherine Chidley | KC
may have been one of the Leveller
women who petitioned Parliament
for the release of John Lilburne
; she may also have been the chief writer of the petition. 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. Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 2, pp. 213-33. 225 |
| Textual Features | Katherine Chidley | The style of the preface, emotively egalitarian and richly larded with Biblical allusion, Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 17 , No. 2, pp. 213-33. 225 |
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's now intensified campaign on domestic violence found fullest expression in her Contemporary Review essay Wife-Torture in England; it crucially shaped the Matrimonial Causes Act passed by Parliament
in May. Cobbe, Frances Power. “Wife-Torture in England”. Contemporary Review, Vol. 32 , pp. 55-87. prelims Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. Routledge. 63-4 Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 260-1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The title of this essay was invoked in Parliament
ary debate over women's suffrage in 1875. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 234 |
| politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Standing from prison for the constituency of St Patrick's, Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz,
became the first woman elected to the British Parliament
; but, following Sinn Féin
policy, she did not take her seat at Westminster. Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century. 356 Cook, Chris, and John Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman. 68-9 |
| 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. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
's father, Sir Robert Sidney, later second Earl of Leicester
, was born on 1 December 1595, Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. Seeley. 10 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blencowe, Robert, editor. Sydney Papers. J. Murray. xv |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
dated her Samsons Legacie; it is now seen as a unity with her appeal to Parliament
dated 3 January 1642. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 85ff |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | She then went to Oxford, where Parliament
was sitting, to show it to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 1 |
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1605: An Act of Parliament authorised the City...
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1605
An Act of Parliament
authorised the City of London for the work and expenditure necessary to create a water supply for its citizens.
5 November 1605: A group of Catholic plotters, led by Guy...
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5 November 1605
A group of Catholic plotters, led by Guy Fawkes
, made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament
with gunpowder.
9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...
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9 November 1640
In a season during which John Pym
and the Long Parliament
created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
1641: In a year of a raging bull market for popish...
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1641
In a year of a raging bull market for popish plots
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial.
108
By 6 June 1641: Thomas Edwards inveighed against the women...
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By 6 June 1641
Thomas Edwards
inveighed against the women preachers of the dissenting sects in Reasons against the Independent Government of Particular Congregations.
22 November 1641: Late at night John Pym's demand, the Grand...
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22 November 1641
Late at night John Pym
's demand, the Grand Remonstrance, passed through Parliament
.
2 September 1642: A couple of weeks into the first English...
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2 September 1642
A couple of weeks into the first English Civil War, a Puritan -dominated Parliament
issued an edict closing the London theatres.
1 August 1643: Milton published The Doctrine and Discipline...
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1 August 1643
Milton
published The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, a pamphlet arguing that divorce ought to be easier (for a husband).
8 August 1643: A women's peace petition was laid before...
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8 August 1643
A women's peace petition was laid before parliament
, an early example among many grassroots protests against the Civil War and its effect on ordinary lives.
September 1643: Parliament entered into the Solemn League...
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September 1643
Parliament
entered into the Solemn League and Covenant
with the Scots, which committed them to accepting the reformed religion (i.e. Presbyterianism
) in Scotland and establishing it in England.
19 December 1644: Parliament passed an ordinance insisting...
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19 December 1644
Parliament
passed an ordinance insisting that when, in the coming week, Christmas clashed with a monthly fast day, the fast should displace the feast.
3 April 1645: The Self-Denying Ordinance provided that...
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3 April 1645
The Self-Denying Ordinance provided that all members of both Houses of Parliament
were to resign from all military or civil offices they had held since 1640. Reappointments were to be made later, according to merit...
16 January 1646: London Aldermen petitioned Parliament against...
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16 January 1646
London Aldermen petitioned Parliament
against the Independent sects on the grounds of their women preaching.
6 January 1647: Mary Overton, arrested with her brother-in-law...
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6 January 1647
Mary Overton
, arrested with her brother-in-law Thomas
as they worked on a scandalous pamphlet,
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial.
479
27 May 1647: Parliament ordered the New Model Army to...
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27 May 1647
Parliament
ordered the New Model Army to disband: a tactical error which merely intensified the army's politicization.
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