Parliament

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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 Katherine Chidley
The style of the preface, emotively egalitarian and richly larded with Biblical allusion,
qtd. in
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.
225
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, 1970.
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 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 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 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 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, 1990.
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.
225
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...
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...

Timeline

1 June 1711: From this day, by Act of Parliament, postal...

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1 June 1711

From this day, by Act of Parliament , postal services were established and regulated between London, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York, and the West Indies.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
22: 178

1716: Parliament passed the Septennial Act, which...

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1716

Parliament passed the Septennial Act, which set the maximum duration of a British government at seven years before an election had to be called (more than twice the previous three-year term).
Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson: A Critical Edition of the Major Works. Editor Greene, Donald, Oxford University Press, 1984.
794n14

1720: The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence...

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1720

The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence of the Dublinparliament on the English one at Westminster.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
72

1728: An Act of Parliament laid down acceptable...

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1728

An Act of Parliament laid down acceptable levels of wages: a live-in woman servant in her twenties would receive two pounds ten shillings annually, as against her male counterpart's three pounds ten shillings.
Korshin, Paul J. “Johnson’s Life Experience with Poverty”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 3-20.
6

3 May 1730: Negroes (for the slave trade) were reported...

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3 May 1730

Negroes (for the slave trade) were reported scarce in coastal districts near Aunamabo in Africa, owing to a bloody war with their inland neighbours.
The Grub-Street Journal. James Roberts.
17 September 1730
Dabydeen, David. Hogarth’s Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth Century English Art. University of Georgia Press, 1987.
121

1735: The Conjuration and Witchcraft Act, repealing...

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1735

The Conjuration and Witchcraft Act, repealing previous British acts against witchcraft and replacing them with more moderate treatment, made its way through Parliament . It received royal assent on 24 March 1736.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

1 May 1746: A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament...

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1 May 1746

A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament in 1745 declared that from this date any marriage of a Protestant solemnised by a Catholic priest (whether to a Catholic or Protestant) was null and void.
“Statutes in Chronological Order, 3: The Reigns of King George I and II”. University of Minnesota Law School: Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery, commonly known as the Penal Laws.

1753: Parliament brought in a bill for implementing...

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1753

Parliament brought in a bill for implementing the first national census: it was rejected by the House of Lords as an infringement on personal liberty.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
87

From 30 July 1760: Following a petition to parliament, seven...

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From 30 July 1760

Following a petition to parliament , seven narrow medieval gates leading into the City of London (Ludgate, Aldgate, etc.) were demolished.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
30 (1760): 390, 407, 440, 591

30 March 1764: Parliament passed the American Duties Act...

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30 March 1764

Parliament passed the American Duties Act (usually called either the Sugar Act or the Revenue Act): an effort to collect the tax due on molasses.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
44-50

After June 1773: Over protest from the House of Lords, the...

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After June 1773

Over protest from the House of Lords , the India Regulating Act enacted the first direct British government intervention in the administration of India.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
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Bayly, Christopher Alan. Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
75
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
354
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
43 (1773): 299

1774: John Wilkes called on parliament to introduce...

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1774

John Wilkes called on parliament to introduce universal manhood suffrage.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
108

1 January 1776: The first American flag was raised, at Cambridge,...

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1 January 1776

The first American flag was raised, at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
96
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
298

9 March 1778: The British Parliament approved proposals...

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9 March 1778

The British Parliament approved proposals from Lord North , the Prime Minister, for conciliation with the United States.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
111

30 December 1779: Christopher Wyvill, a conservative supporter...

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30 December 1779

Christopher Wyvill , a conservative supporter of parliamentary reform fuelled by a sense of the interests of the propertied gentry, held a meeting of about six hundred men at York assembly rooms, which resolved to...

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