“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Parliament
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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/. |
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. 116 |
politics | Marghanita Laski | As a member of the Annan Committee
, ML
helped present the Committee's Report on the Future of Broadcasting (written by Lord Annan
himself) to Parliament
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “British Media Inquiries, White Papers and Official reports: Broadcasting”. Terra Media. |
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. 40 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | 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
. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
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 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU
deputation to Parliament
. She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison
and her experience garnered much media attention. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 30-2 |
politics | Harriet Martineau | Because she reached a large audience on current issues such as political reform, industry, and economic policy, HM
became highly influential in political circles. She was sent so many Blue Books (Parliament
ary reports)... |
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. 325 |
Publishing | Sophia Jex-Blake | Advocating the passage by Parliament
of Russell Gurney
's Enabling Act, SJB
published an essay in the Fortnightly Review titled The Practice of Medicine by Women. Gurney supported various women's causes. His wife, Emelia Russell Gurney |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | He followed this with letters to newspapers urging the abolitionist cause, and in early 1788 published four reviews of books on the race question by James Tobin
and other defenders of the system of slavery... |
Reception | Harriet Martineau | Undertaken at the urging of John Bright
, who supplied HM
with evidence collected for his Parliament
ary committee, this venture was not well-received and brought her no money. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 158, 257-8 |
Textual Features | Charlotte Nooth | The nobility of the skin means a class system based on race as others are based on birth or money. Nooth's translation has no preliminary pages, no address by translator to reader. Grégoire cites his... |
Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | She printed a whole series of appeals to the High Court of Parliament
, and a whole series of welcomes and warnings about the imminent Second Coming of Christ. Having published in 1645 a tract... |
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... |
Timeline
11 September 1648: In a petition to Parliament, a group of Englishwomen...
Women writers item
11 September 1648
In a petition to Parliament
, a group of Englishwomen claimed a proportionable share in the Freedoms of this commonwealth with men.
5 May 1649: Women calling themselves female Leveller...
Women writers item
5 May 1649
Women calling themselves female Leveller
petitionersprotested to Parliament
about the continued imprisonment of their husbands: this action had been well prepared for.
August 1651: Christopher Love, a clergyman, was executed...
National or international item
August 1651
Christopher Love
, a clergyman, was executed by order of Parliament
for disobeying its dictates, in spite of the campaign of petitions organized by his wife, Mary
.
October 1651: A Navigation Act passed by the English parliament...
National or international item
October 1651
A Navigation Act passed by the English parliament
challenged Dutch shipping trade, and helped cause a war (the First Dutch War) which lasted from early 1652 until April 1654.
October 1656: Quaker maverick James Nayler set out to demonstrate...
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October 1656
Quaker
maverick James Nayler
set out to demonstrate the spirit of Christ within him by staging an entry into Bristol riding on a donkey, as Christ had ridden into Jerusalem.
11 February 1660: General Monck, having marched on London from...
National or international item
11 February 1660
General Monck
, having marched on London from Scotland, dissolved the Parliament
by military threat and convened a new one.
1661: John Evelyn published a pamphlet entitled...
Writing climate item
1661
John Evelyn
published a pamphlet entitled Fumifugium: or, The Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoake of London Dissipated; a reprint by the National Smoke Abatement Society
in 1933 has an introduction by Rose Macaulay
.
1661: Parliament passed the Corporation Act, the...
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1661
Parliament
passed the Corporation Act, the first of four Acts making up the Clarendon Code (named after Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
), which strictly limited the rights and practices of Dissenters.
Late October 1678: The newly opened Parliament passed an act...
National or international item
Late October 1678
The newly opened Parliament
passed an act to exclude Catholics from election as members.
1700: The English Parliament prohibited the import...
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1700
The EnglishParliament
prohibited the import of Indian cottons and muslins.
About 10 April 1700: Legislation passed Parliament disqualifying...
Building item
About 10 April 1700
Legislation passed Parliament
disqualifying Catholics as heirs to property: if the owner remained Catholic after the age of eighteen, the estate would pass to the nearest Protestant heir.
12 June 1701: Important constitutional principles were...
National or international item
12 June 1701
Important constitutional principles were laid down in the Settlement Act or Act of Settlement. This formalised the outcome of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 (dashing the hopes of Jacobites), and placed the monarch in a...
March 1705: Daniel Defoe published The Consolidator:...
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March 1705
Daniel Defoe
published The Consolidator: an ingenious allegorickRelation or satiricalscience fiction about a trip to the moon on a flying machine whose 513 feathers coincide with the number of MPs in Parliament
.
1709: An Act of Parliament for Enlarging the Capital...
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1709
An Act of Parliamentfor Enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England is cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as its first use of capital in the sense of financial assets in hand.
8 March 1710: A character in The Female Tatler, Emilia,...
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8 March 1710
A character in The Female Tatler, Emilia, remarked that if it had not been for male tyranny we [i.e. women] had sat in Parliament
long before this time.
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