Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Violence | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
was violently attacked by a group of young Liberal
s after an Independent Labour Party
victory in Mid-Devon; she later learned that a local Conservative
had been killed in the mélee. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
opens her piece by reference to the Representation of the People Act of December 1884, and the strong popular support on that occasion for an amendment which would have included women in the electorate... |
| 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 | Florence Nightingale | FN
's father, William Edward Nightingale
, a banker's son and Cambridge-educated Whig
party supporter, was a landowner, a highly cultured country gentleman of ample means. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| politics | Henrietta Müller | Her predecessors had argued that it was impossible for two women to oversee all education of girls in London (while boys had forty-seven men attending to their interests). Nevertheless HM
, flying her stripes with... |
| politics | Thomas Moore | He supported the Whig Party
. These party sympathies were cemented through his friendship with Byron
, an ardent Whig. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | In 1834 HM
published Letter to the Deaf in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Around 1837 she was asked to take charge of an Economical Magazine at a good salary, which she thought opened the prospect... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Illustrations catapulted HM
into fame: she was lionized by London society. She received flattering responses from Coleridge
and from her precursor as a political economist, Jane Marcet
. Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 212, 214 |
| Publishing | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's anonymous Sir Edward Grey, K. G. (a Liberal and then Foreign Secretary, later first Viscount Grey of Fallodon
), 1915, is in 2008 ascribed to her in the Bodleian Library
but not in... |
| politics | May Laffan | ML
had strong political views, and she frequently addressed political subjects in her novels. She was critical of English governance, and presented the misery and poverty of Irish peasants as worse than that of their... |
| politics | Rudyard Kipling | |
| politics | Rudyard Kipling | When the Liberal Party
came to power in Britain in 1906 he judged its government corrupt. He disapproved of its handling of strikes by workers between 1910 and 1912, and even more of its... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
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5 March 1894: The Earl of Rosebery (Liberal) became Prime...
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5 March 1894
The Earl of Rosebery
(Liberal
) became Prime Minister after Gladstone
's resignation.
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
5 December 1905: Liberal leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,...
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5 December 1905
Liberal
leader Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
, a known supporter of women's suffrage, formed the government of the UK, following the surprise resignation of Conservative Arthur James Balfour
.
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
4
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
51
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
7 February 1906: A general election brought the Liberal Party...
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7 February 1906
A general election brought the Liberal Party
to power in Britain by a great majority.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
7 April 1908: Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal) became the...
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7 April 1908
Herbert Henry Asquith
(Liberal
) became the British Prime Minister following the resignation of Campbell-Bannerman
.
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
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.
November 1909: The controversial People's Budget of David...
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November 1909
The controversial People's Budget of David Lloyd George
passed successfully through the House of Commons
; three weeks later, however, it was vetoed by the Lords
.
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.
January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...
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January 1910
A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George
's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative
and [Ulster] Unionist Parties
came in only two votes behind the Liberals
7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...
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7 November 1911
The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith
, told members of the People's Suffrage Federation
that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
318-19
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
116-17, 171
1912: The Liberal Government began censoring Votes...
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1912
The Liberal
Government began censoring Votes for Women, the Women's Social and Political Union
's weekly journal.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
295
Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing, 2007.
76
11 April 1912: Asquith brought forward the Liberal party's...
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11 April 1912
Asquith
brought forward the Liberal party
's third Home Rule Bill for Ireland (since 1886) in return for election support from John Redmond
of the Irish Party
.
“Living Heritage. Parliament and Ireland. Third Home Rule Bill”. www. parliament.uk.
May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
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May 1912
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
established the Election Fighting Fund to allow it to support Labour
candidates in constituencies where a Liberal
anti-suffragist was running.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
144-5
17 June 1912: The Liberals' long-promised Franchise Bill...
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17 June 1912
The Liberal
s' long-promised Franchise Bill passed its first reading in the House of Commons; its second reading followed on 12 July 1912.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
172
14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...
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14 December 1918
The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.
166
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
356
Davies, Emily. “Chronology, Introduction”. Collected Letters, 1861-1875, edited by Ann E. Murphy and Deirdre Raftery, University of Virginia Press, 2004, p. ix - xii, xix-lv.
xlviii
“The 1918 coupon general election”. Liberal Democrat History Group.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92
“Houses of the Oireachtas—Where it began!”. Houses of the Oireachtas / Tithe an Oireachtas.
15 November 1922: In the British general election the Conservative...
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15 November 1922
In the British general election the Conservative Party
, under its recently-elected leader Bonar Law
, won a majority of 77, ending David Lloyd George
's Liberal
-Conservative coalition.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
6 December 1923: A general election was held in Britain....
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6 December 1923
A general election was held in Britain.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under UK General Election 1923
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