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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Constance Smedley
The book charts the gradual, up-and-down, always painful but inexorable self-emancipation of these children. Even the naturally conformist Catharine, still living with her parents at the end of the book, is by then much involved...
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Sarah Lady Piers
But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not),
Piers, Sarah, Lady. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott, 1714.
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faction, and rebellion (imaged as...
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.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969.