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...

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...

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.

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 .

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.

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...

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...

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...

This 70-page pamphlet, addressed to Parliament , exhibits detailed knowledge of the law and of recent cases involving heiress marriage, adultery, etc. SC finds the English law harsher to women than either ancient Roman or...

Probus (probably CF ) wrote in the Public Advertiser that a time was coming that will enable the people to resume the power delegated to the indolent, corrupt, and venal Parliament .

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...

The style of the preface, emotively egalitarian and richly larded with Biblical allusion, suggests Chidley. So does the logic of the central argument: that the Supream authority in this Nation, the Commons assembled in...