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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... |
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... |
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. 72-3 |
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. |
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, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 212, 214 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | After attending Cambridge University
, David Alfred Thomas
, Margaret's father, became a Liberal
Member of Parliament, representing Merthyr Tydfil from 1888 to 1910. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press. 5 Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. This Was My World. Macmillan. 5 |
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 | 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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