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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... |
Reception | Harriet Martineau | Undertaken at the urging of John Bright
, who supplied HM
with evidence collected for his Parliament
ary committee, this venture was not well-received and brought her no money. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 158, 257-8 |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | He followed this with letters to newspapers urging the abolitionist cause, and in early 1788 published four reviews of books on the race question by James Tobin
and other defenders of the system of slavery... |
Publishing | Sophia Jex-Blake | Advocating the passage by Parliament
of Russell Gurney
's Enabling Act, SJB
published an essay in the Fortnightly Review titled The Practice of Medicine by Women. Gurney supported various women's causes. His wife, Emelia Russell Gurney |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Standing from prison for the constituency of St Patrick's, Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz,
became the first woman elected to the British Parliament
; but, following Sinn Féin
policy, she did not take her seat at Westminster. Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century. 356 Cook, Chris, and John Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman. 68-9 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
was arrested for the first time, for suffrage action in disrupting the opening of Parliament
in London; together with many suffrage leaders, she was sentenced to two months in Holloway Prison
. Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge. 127 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU
deputation to Parliament
. She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison
and her experience garnered much media attention. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 30-2 |
politics | Harriet Martineau | Because she reached a large audience on current issues such as political reform, industry, and economic policy, HM
became highly influential in political circles. She was sent so many Blue Books (Parliament
ary reports)... |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | After the National Union of Women Workers
voted to support female suffrage, MAW
formed a Joint Advisory Committee
to liaise with Parliament
about her social work. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 325 |
politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | She also became the driving force behind her husband's political career. Though strongly opposed by their families, the couple shared a strong belief in the Liberal party and worked together on campaigns which brought Philip... |
politics | Mary Prince | The Anti-Slavery Society
submitted a petition to parliament
on MP
's behalf, for her freedom. Alexander, Ziggi et al. “Introduction; Supplement; Appendices”. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, edited by Moira Ferguson, Pandora, pp. 1-41. 116 |
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