Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press, 1970.
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Textual Production | Dorothy White | Following Priscilla Cotton
but preceding Margaret Fell
, DW
defended women's preaching in A Call from God Out of Egypt, by His Son Christ the Light of Life, which is partly in verse (a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament
's refusal... |
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, 1970. 156-7 |
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, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 325 |
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 73 Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862, 2 vols. 2: 428 |
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... |
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 | 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, 1930. 291-4 |
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... |
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, 1996. 66 Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz, 1949. 130 |
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, 1978. 40 |
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, 1987, pp. 1-41. 116 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christabel Pankhurst | Having pointed out that women acquire on marriage an extra set of legal disabilities to go with those they had before, and having argued that without the vote women are in no state to alter... |
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