Parliament

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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...

Timeline

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.
Rudden, Bernard. “The Purchas’d Wave”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 28-9.
28

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.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
607
Neill, Michael. “Glimpsed in the Glare”. London Revew of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 24, 17 Dec. 2015, pp. 39-41.
40

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.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
105-6

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, 2007.
108
several women were among those who took an oath (required by Parliament of all citizens) to support the true religion.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
65-6

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.
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, 1998, pp. 213-33.
216

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 .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
118-19

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.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 September 2008

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).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
280-1

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.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
112-3
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
233

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.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
238-41

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.
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, 1998, pp. 213-33.
216

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, 2007.
479
was brought before the House of Lords , pregnant and with her six-month-old baby in her arms.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
476, 478-90

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.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
484-5

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