Parliament

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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

Having pointed out that women acquire on marriage an extra set of legal disabilities to go with those they had before, and having argued that without the vote women are in no state to alter...

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...