Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Characters | Catherine Gore | Like its predecessor, this novel recalls Jane Austen
, but this time the plot (at least the earlier part) is closer to that of Sense and Sensibility. Marcia, a sensible elder sister, makes a... |
Cultural formation | Emily Shirreff | |
Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
involved herself with the Liberal Party
in about 1906, and the Women's Social and Political Union
soon afterwards. She worked with the Pankhursts
and militant suffragettes. During World War One, prejudice against her husband's... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Lady Cynthia Charteris
married Herbert Asquith
, Beb, the second son of Herbert Henry Asquith
and Helen Asquith
. Herbert Henry Asquith (later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1852-1928, was at this time... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Nott | KN
's father, Philip Nott
, was a lithographic printer. He was something he called a liberal, which meant he probably voted Liberal
and disapproved of war, capitalism, the Labour Party
, and God. He... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's father, Reginald Baliol Brett
, became the second Viscount Esher after his father
's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stott | Amalia Maria Christina (Bates) Waddington
, MS
's mother, came from a large, talented and gay family, with a habit of laughter and a determination not to lose touch with each other. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973. 16 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elinor Glyn | EG
gave birth to her second daughter (Juliet, later Rhys Williams
) on 15 December 1898. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994. 78 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Grant | AG
's father, Duncan MacVicar
, was a farmer later turned army officer, as well as a poet and letter-writer: a plain, brave, pious man Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols. 1: 2 Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96. 248 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Carpenter | MC
's father, Lant Carpenter
, was born on 2 September 1780 to Mary née Hooke
and her husband, carpet manufacturer George Carpenter
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Lant Carpenter |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her father, Alexander Clapperton
, was a successful merchant who owned businesses in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He was also active and influential in local politics, and was known to have Liberal
sympathies. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Temple, H. B., editor. “Miss Jane Hume Clapperton, Authoress”. The Women’s Penny Paper, Vol. 1 , No. 35, 22 June 1889, pp. 1-2. 1.35 (22 June 1889): 1 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Fisher | Thomas Slack
, husband of AF
, published the first number of his Newcastle Chronicle; the paper continued in the family for eighty-six years, becoming a leading Liberal
voice in the region. Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol. 6 , No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131-8. 136 Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, Vol. 33 , No. 1-2, John Benjamins, 2006, pp. 11-38. 31 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's father, Robert Lawson Ford
, was a solicitor and landowner, and a Quaker
who belonged to the radical wing of the Liberal Party
. He supported local Quaker MP John Bright
in his... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | After attending Cambridge University
, David Alfred Thomas
, Margaret's father, became a Liberal
Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991. 5 Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. This Was My World. Macmillan, 1933. 5 |
Timeline
10 October 1802: The Edinburgh Review (founded by Henry Brougham...
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10 October 1802
The Edinburgh Review (founded by Henry Brougham
as a quarterly magazine of liberal views) published its first issue; it became a leading voice under editors like Francis Jeffrey
and Sydney Smith
, and lasted until...
17 November 1834: The Duke of Wellington was appointed First...
National or international item
17 November 1834
The Duke of Wellington
was appointed First Lord of the Treasury and Secretary of State after the dismissal of the Whig Party
by King William IV
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
18 February 1835: Following a general election, Irish O'Connellites,...
National or international item
18 February 1835
Following a general election, Irish O'Connell
ites, Whigs and Radicals formed an Opposition alliance at Lichfield House in London.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
407, 857
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
260
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
606
May 1850: Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George...
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May 1850
Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George Reynolds
as a radical Sunday paper of international news, designed to serve the cause of freedom and democracy.
University of Bradford, Learning Support Services. http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/special/reynolds.php.
29 June 1855: The first number appeared of Daily Telegraph...
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29 June 1855
The first number appeared of Daily Telegraph and Courier, a newspaper which as the Daily Telegraph is still published in London in the twenty-first century.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
June 12 1859: The Whig Party reformed under the leadership...
National or international item
June 12 1859
The Whig Party
reformed under the leadership of Lord Palmerston
, as the Liberal Party
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
857
July 1865: A general election was held in Britain; campaigning...
National or international item
July 1865
A general election was held in Britain; campaigning was rendered eventful by distress and unrest in industrial areas, and controversy over the prospect of a new Reform Bill.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
280-1
27 April 1866: Benjamin Disraeli, leader of the opposition...
National or international item
27 April 1866
Benjamin Disraeli
, leader of the opposition to the Liberal
government, argued that if there is to be universal suffrage, women have as much right to vote as men.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
160
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
160, 386n34
3 December 1868: Following the first general election after...
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3 December 1868
Following the first general election after the Second Reform Act of the previous year, William Gladstone
, a Liberal
, formed the government in succession to ConservativeBenjamin Disraeli
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
20 February 1874: Conservative leader Benjamin Disraeli formed...
National or international item
20 February 1874
Conservative
leader Benjamin Disraeli
formed the government for a second time, in succession to Gladstone
's Liberal
government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
1880s: Many local Women's Liberal Associations ...
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1880s
Many local Women's Liberal Association
s formed.
Walker, Linda. “Party Political Women: A Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 165-91.
166-9
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
286
23 April 1880: Liberal William Gladstone formed the UK's...
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23 April 1880
LiberalWilliam Gladstone
formed the UK's government for the second time, following a Conservative
disaster in the general election.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
1 February 1886: William Gladstone (Liberal) formed the UK...
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1 February 1886
William Gladstone
(Liberal
) formed the UK government for the third time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...
National or international item
8 June 1886
Gladstone
's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was defeated. The issue split his party, the Liberals
, and eventually the Liberal-Unionists were absorbed into the Conservatives
.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
424-5, 609
Kidd, Colin. “Coalition Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 5, 6 Mar. 2014, pp. 27-8. 27
15 August 1892: William Gladstone (Liberal), then eighty-two,...
National or international item
15 August 1892
William Gladstone
(Liberal
), then eighty-two, formed his fourth government.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
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