Liberal Party

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
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...
Textual Features Sybille Bedford
This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or...
Publishing Arnold Bennett
Having begun as a journalist, AB remained one until the end of his career. In New York at the end of 1911, he sold essays and serials to periodicals ther..
Drabble, Margaret. Arnold Bennett. Knopf.
186-7
During the first world...
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 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
His father left the family after his business...
Textual Production Caroline Chisholm
The full speech was printed the following day in Sydney's two prominent daily papers. The issue of Free Selection Before Survey was the central one in the upcoming state election. It was also the main...
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, pp. 1-2.
1.35 (22 June 1889): 1
Textual Production Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Current Crisis, a pamphlet in support of Lord Melbourne 's Whigs after his ministry was dismissed in 1834, sold 30,000 copies in six weeks and...
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, 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...
Cultural formation Isabella Ormston Ford
She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker family with Liberal politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The family was of prosperous middle-class standing, but IOF was brought up with a...
Family and Intimate relationships Kate Parry Frye
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...
politics Kate Parry Frye
The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF 's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party : her mother expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association meetings hosted in the...
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.
78
Juliet grew up to be most unlike her mother: a specialist in economics, politically active and devoted...
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...

Timeline

10 October 1802: The Edinburgh Review (founded by Henry Brougham...

Writing climate item

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 .

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.

May 1850: Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George...

Writing climate item

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.

29 June 1855: The first number appeared of Daily Telegraph...

Writing climate item

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.

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 .

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.

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.
160

3 December 1868: Following the first general election after...

National or international item

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 .

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.

1880s: Many local Women's Liberal Associations ...

National or international item

1880s

Many local Women's Liberal Association s formed.

23 April 1880: Liberal William Gladstone formed the UK's...

National or international item

23 April 1880

LiberalWilliam Gladstone formed the UK's government for the second time, following a Conservative disaster in the general election.

1 February 1886: William Gladstone (Liberal) formed the UK...

National or international item

1 February 1886

William Gladstone (Liberal ) formed the UK government for the third time.

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 .

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.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.