“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Parliament
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Pat Arrowsmith | PA
ran (unsuccessfully) for Parliament
in Fulham as a member of the Radical Alliance
. Kimber, Richard. Political Science Resources. http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/. |
| politics | Marghanita Laski | As a member of the Annan Committee
, ML
helped present the Committee's Report on the Future of Broadcasting (written by Lord Annan
himself) to Parliament
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “British Media Inquiries, White Papers and Official reports: Broadcasting”. Terra Media. |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | After decades of agitation led by ER
, Parliament
passed the Family Endowment Bill, ensuring that mothers would receive state support for the upbringing of their children. Stobaugh, Beverly. Women and Parliament, 1918-1970. Exposition Press. 40 |
| Occupation | Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield | From the age of twenty he held a positon at Court and a seat in Parliament
. After becoming an earl he served in the Privy Council
and as British ambassador at The Hague... |
| Occupation | Thomas Babington, first Baron Macaulay | TBBM
received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton
in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party
in Parliament
. There he took a role in passing the... |
| Occupation | Queen Victoria | QV
opened Parliament
, witnessed by many including Lady Morgan
, who admired her composure and oral delivery. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 73 Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen. 2: 428 |
| 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. |
| Occupation | Benjamin Disraeli | After several failed attempts, BD
was elected to Parliament
as Conservative
member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was elected to Parliament
, where she served as the Independent representative of the English Universities. She held this post, through several comfortable election victories, until her death in 1946. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 66 Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz. 130 |
| Occupation | Maude Royden | Between 1923 and January 1924, she used this position to urge the Church to revise its marriage service by removing implications of female subordination in marriage, specifically the command that the wife obey the husband... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Hannah More | She wrote it in haste, to catch the date when the issue was being debated in parliament
. Roberts, William. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More. L. and G. Seeley, http://Rutherford HSS. 1: 396 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | D'Eon, whom Macaulay respected, was sometimes linked with her as a fellow learned lady by those who thought him to be female. On June 6, 1771 the Public Advertiser carried a spoof report that CM |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The title of this essay was invoked in Parliament
ary debate over women's suffrage in 1875. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 234 |
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Henry Grattan
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Henry Grattan
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Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers
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