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Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
QEI delivered a speech to Parliament in which she declined their petitions that she should marry.
Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18.
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Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press.
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Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
QEI gave before Parliament her golden speech (which for years was assumed to be her last). It was published the same year.
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press.
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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...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
QEI made her final speech to Parliament before its rising: it is a long speech, again elegiac in tone, delivered to only a small audience, since most of the MPs had already left for their...
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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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.
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, No. 2, pp. 213-33.
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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.
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, No. 2, pp. 213-33.
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suggests Chidley. So does the logic of the central argument: that the Supream authority in this Nation, the Commons assembled in...
Textual Features Anne Grant
In a passage that deploys all her own high rhetorical ability she seeks to prove that women's ability is normally inferior to men's. Wollstonecraft's book, which is so run after here, that there is no...
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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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...
Textual Features Lady Eleanor Douglas
In this she claimed for herself the Papal power to excommunicate, and proposed a new day called Moonday to replace Sunday (the sabbath), which Parliament proposed to abolish.
Textual Features May Laffan
The protagonist, John O'Rooney Hogan, is the nephew of a bishop who aims at social climbing. He gains a veneer of Protestantism by attending Trinity College, Dublin , and at the urging of the duplicitous...

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11 September 1648: In a petition to Parliament, a group of Englishwomen...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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