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, pp. 213-33. 225
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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. 17 , No. 2, pp. 213-33. 225 |
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. 156-7 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
Textual Features | Muriel Box | Details of the changed world include the telecommunication by screen image, extinction of smoking, and a three-day weekend and four-day work week. Houses are made of toughened glass and cars are solar-charged, self-renewing, and circular... |
Textual Features | Constance Lytton | No intelligent woman, she wrote, could spend time in Holloway Prison
without realising that the wreckage of lives seen there resulted not from human frailty only but also from a state of law and public... |
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. 291-4 |
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. 17 , No. 2, pp. 213-33. 225 |
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 Production | Frances Power Cobbe | On the day that John Stuart Mill
presented to Parliament
the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC
placed a double-column letter in the high Tory
paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed... |
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