Edith, Countess of Lytton,. Lady Lytton’s Court Diary, 1895-1899. Editor Lutyens, Mary, Rupert Hart-Davis.
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | |
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 | Maude Royden | Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party
; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party
's recent concern for it caused the society to change... |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Henrietta Mendl (later GHS
) campaigned for the Liberals before the general election held on 7 February, in which her brother-in-law Sigi Mendl
was standing for the Liberals
at Stockton-on-Tees. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 69-70 |
politics | Constance Smedley | Living at Minchinhampton opened Smedley's eyes to the poverty and deprivation prevalent in the English countryside, and from a moderate Conservative she became an active Liberal
supporter. The Pageant of Progress, which charted the... |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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