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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 | 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. 16 |
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. |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character... |
Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | Opponents of ER
's plans included members of the Conservative
, Liberal
, and Labour
parties, though the Independent Labour Party
gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the... |
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, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 212, 214 |
Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | In 1802 Henry Brougham
helped to found the Edinburgh Review; he became a regular contributor to this reigning Whig
periodical. To the first twenty numbers he contributed eighty articles on subjects ranging from science... |
Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed |
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... |
politics | Queen Victoria | QV
's 1837-1901 reign was the longest of any British monarch. By taking a dedicated and active role in the rule of her country—despite her assertion that I never interfere in politics Edith, Countess of Lytton,. Lady Lytton’s Court Diary, 1895-1899. Editor Lutyens, Mary, Rupert Hart-Davis. 43 |
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... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party
and the rise of the Labour Party
: Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and... |
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... |
politics | Rudyard Kipling |
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