Parliament

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Jebb
AJ wrote to John Cartwright of her fears that parliament would plunder the East, and enslave this nation at their leisure.
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
602
Textual Production Lucille Iremonger
LI published her ironically titled And His Charming Lady, a composite biographical study of wives of Members of Parliament .
Iremonger, Lucille. And His Charming Lady. Secker and Warburg.
8
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Howitt
According to Carl Ray Woodring , the magazine's heroine from first to last was George Sand .
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press.
137
It discussed every genre of the arts, and had also a strong social conscience. In articles such...
Occupation Richard Hengist Horne
Also in the 1840s, he was among those commissioned by Parliament to inquire into the conditions resulting from industrialisation. Such Blue Books reported on myriad aspects of the life of the nation. In the case...
Literary Setting John Oliver Hobbes
The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and...
Occupation Eliza Haywood
This was Fielding's last production. Next day Sir Robert Walpole introduced into parliament the Licensing Act , which killed this company and EH 's stage career.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
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...
Textual Features Anne Grant
In a passage that deploys all her own high rhetorical ability she seeks to prove that women's ability is normally inferior to men's. Wollstonecraft's book, which is so run after here, that there is no...
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
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Antonia Fraser
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
Textual Features Charlotte Forman
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 .
Gold, Joel J. “’Buried Alive’: Charlotte Forman in Grub Street”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
8
, No. 1, pp. 28-45.
30
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...
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
QEI delivered a speech to Parliament in which she declined their petitions that she should marry.
Collinson, Patrick. “Little Bastard”. London Review of Books, pp. 17-18.
18
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press.
56-8
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
QEI gave before Parliament her golden speech (which for years was assumed to be her last). It was published the same year.
Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press.
342 and n1
Textual Production Queen Elizabeth I
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...

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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