Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, pp. 597 - 604, 661. 602
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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 |
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... |
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