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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.
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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.
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Cook, Chris, and John Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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1774

John Wilkes called on parliament to introduce universal manhood suffrage.

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.

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.

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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