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Textual Features Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Written after the death of her husband, the poems in the collection deal with death, grief, and consolation as well as a number of feminist issues. Her poem Outlawed for example, written in response to...
Occupation Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
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...
politics Mary Prince
The Anti-Slavery Society submitted a petition to parliament on MP 's behalf, for her freedom.
Alexander, Ziggi et al. “Introduction; Supplement; Appendices”. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, edited by Moira Ferguson, Pandora, pp. 1-41.
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Occupation Eleanor Rathbone
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.
Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
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Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz.
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politics Eleanor Rathbone
After decades of agitation led by ER , Parliament passed the Family Endowment Bill, ensuring that mothers would receive state support for the upbringing of their children.
Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
The book's satire on parliament for its treatment of women was highly topical at a date two years after the new Divorce Act, three years after the Married Women's Property Committee was formed, and during...
Occupation Maude Royden
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...
Textual Production Maude Royden
MR was sensitive to the damage done by cultural stereotypes, prejudices, and assumptions about female sexuality. Much of her work argues defiantly against the sexual double standard and the widespread condemnation of female sexuality in...
Textual Production Lydia Howard Sigourney
LHS commemorated her visit to the state opening of the British parliament in a poem which, in covering Queen Victoria 's Speech from the Throne, addresses the place of women in public life.
Sackville-West, Vita. The Annual. Editor Wellesley, Dorothy, Cobden-Sanderson.
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Occupation Thomas Babington, first Baron Macaulay
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...
Textual Features Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
The tone of the novel is serious and didactic. Its claim to advocacy and realism is absolute: Let no one suppose we are going to write fiction, or to conjure up phantoms of a heated...
Textual Production Melesina Trench
Once more only a single copy survives, at the New York Public Library . The Customs and Excise tax on salt imported from foreign countries, and into England from Scotland, was widely felt to be...
Occupation Queen Victoria
QV opened Parliament , witnessed by many including Lady Morgan , who admired her composure and oral delivery.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
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Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen.
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politics Mary Augusta Ward
After the National Union of Women Workers voted to support female suffrage, MAW formed a Joint Advisory Committee to liaise with Parliament about her social work.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Features Mary Augusta Ward
Vineta Colby comments that here and in its predecessor, Both novels are dressed and furnished in meticulous detail. The cold statistics of the parliament ary Blue Books are bedecked in sables and lace.
Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press.
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19 April 1780: Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration...

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19 April 1780

Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration to the Irish parliament of the legislative independence of Ireland from England.

19 April 1780: Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration...

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19 April 1780

Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration to the Irish parliament of the legislative independence of Ireland from England.

15 February 1782: Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met...

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15 February 1782

Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met at Dungannon and adopted resolutions in favour of Ireland's independence from England and relaxation of the Penal Laws.

Later 1783: The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded...

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Later 1783

The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded (a precursor to the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade , composed chiefly of Quakers ) and The Case of our Fellow Creatures, the Oppressed Africans was published.

5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...

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5 November 1788-10 March 1789

George III 's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales .

March 1792: The Danish parliament voted to end the slave...

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March 1792

The Danish parliament voted to end the slave trade to their West Indian colonies.

19 December 1792: In a month of national political panic, the...

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19 December 1792

In a month of national political panic, the British Parliament introduced an Alien Bill to limit the entry of emigrants from France.

18 February 1793: Roman Catholic freeholders in Ireland were...

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18 February 1793

Roman Catholic freeholders in Ireland were enfranchised by the Catholic Relief Act, introduced into the British Parliament on this day.

26 October 1795: Just before the opening of parliament, the...

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26 October 1795

Just before the opening of parliament , the London Corresponding Society held a large open-air meeting at Copenhagen House in Islington.

29 October 1795: A crowd surrounded George III's coach on...

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29 October 1795

A crowd surrounded George III 's coach on its way to the state opening of parliament ; someone threw a stone.

18 December 1795: The Two Acts or Gagging Acts (the Treasonable...

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18 December 1795

The Two Acts or Gagging Acts (the Treasonable Practices Bill and Seditious Meetings Bill) were passed by parliament , to remain in force for extended periods.

26 February 1797: The Bank of England, alarmed by a run on...

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26 February 1797

The Bank of England , alarmed by a run on gold prompted by fears of invasion from Napoleonic France, prohibited payments in cash: in May this prohibition was enforced by legislation establishing a period of Restriction.

15 May 1797: Henry Grattan and other Opposition members...

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15 May 1797

Henry Grattan and other Opposition members seceded from the Irish parliament (i.e. ceased to attend); they saw it as a tool of despotism.

15 January 1800: The Irish parliament met for what was to...

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15 January 1800

The Irish parliament met for what was to be its last session.

30 May 1800: Parliament debated a Divorce Bill....

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30 May 1800

Parliament debated a Divorce Bill.

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