Liberal Party

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...

ES enjoyed the comforts of upper-middle-class life, in an English and presumably white family. Her father had Protestant (French Huguenot) roots. She grew up influenced by Whig principles. Shirreff confirmed her commitment to Christianity while...

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...

She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker family with Liberal politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits. The family was of prosperous middle-class standing, but IOF was brought up with a...

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. Amalia was...

EG gave birth to her second daughter (Juliet, later Rhys Williams ) on 15 December 1898. Juliet grew up to be most unlike her mother: a specialist in economics, politically active and devoted...

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...

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 whose political views were Whiggish . He...

MC 's father, Lant Carpenter , was born on 2 September 1780 to Mary née Hooke and her husband, carpet manufacturer George Carpenter . His father left the family after his business...

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.

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.

After attending Cambridge University , David Alfred Thomas , Margaret's father, became a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910.

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...

ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...

KPF 's father, Frederick Charlwood Frye , attended Saffron Walden Grammar School and worked as a clerk and grocer. During the late nineteenth century his grocery business did very well, expanding into a chain, and...