Parliament

FPC 's now intensified campaign on domestic violence found fullest expression in her Contemporary Review essay Wife-Torture in England; it crucially shaped the Matrimonial Causes Act passed by Parliament in May.

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...

LED dated her Samsons Legacie; it is now seen as a unity with her appeal to Parliament dated 3 January 1642.

LI published her ironically titled And His Charming Lady, a composite biographical study of wives of Members of Parliament .

She then went to Oxford, where Parliament was sitting, to show it to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833. Blessington was ahead of the game with this novel depicting the defeat of the movement for repeal of the Act...

QEI delivered a speech to Parliament in which she declined their petitions that she should marry.

QEI gave before Parliament her golden speech (which for years was assumed to be her last). It was published the same year.

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...

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...

The book's satire on parliament for its treatment of women was highly topical at a date two years after the new Divorce Act, three years after the Married Women's Property Committee was formed, and during...

This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes , Thomas Winter , and Robert (Robin) Catesby ; rulers such as King James

Since no translator's name appears, it is possible though by no means certain that MAH here wrote in French. She covers her subject—British democracy in its history, manifestations, and underlying nature—lucidly and succinctly. Part...

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...

According to Carl Ray Woodring , the magazine's heroine from first to last was George Sand . It discussed every genre of the arts, and had also a strong social conscience. In articles such...