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politics | Stella Benson | After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB
sided with Flora Annie Steel
in a Women Writers' Suffrage League
dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | In the same month that the House of Commons
was officially informed of the Nazi
holocaust of Jews and other minorities, ER
began to pressure the government for a formal debate on the catastrophe. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 135 |
politics | Ray Strachey | RS
volunteered as parliamentary secretary and advisor to Lady Astor
, the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons
. Lady Astor was elected on 1 December 1919. Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 287 |
politics | Annie Besant | The Monster Petition against parliamentary grants to royal personages Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 101 Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 101 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | When the House of Commons
first debated the extermination of the Jews and other despised minorities in Germany and conquered nations, ER
urged Britain to secure safety for refugees in neutral states. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 135 |
politics | Charlotte Despard | The WFL was against violence or damage to property or individual politicians. They organized a protest in which a woman chained herself to the grille of the House of Commons
Ladies' Gallery, and they favoured... |
politics | Caroline Norton | Thomas Noon Talfourd
gave notice early in 1837 of a House of Commons
motion on this subject, and the Bill was printed. But immediately after this CN
's husband relented and allowed her to see... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The movement of this bill involved many prominent women in the House of Commons
: it had been introduced by Margaret Bondfield
, the nation's first female cabinet minister, while Jennie Lee
, Lady Cynthia Moseley |
politics | Flora Tristan | With the help of a Turkish diplomat she met while in London, FT
attended sessions in the British House of Commons
and House of Lords
disguised as a Turkish gentleman. Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books. 55 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | She remained a staunch feminist and patriot. As she had recognized two decades earlier, times of war did allow for social change and improvement, despite the extensive, brutal devastation of armed conflict. On 20 March... |
Publishing | Dinah Mulock Craik | Dinah Mulock
contributed to the Cornhill a female perspective on parliamentary debate in The House
: ladies' gallery. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. chronology Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 5: 563-4 |
Publishing | Beatrice Harraden | A couple of years after this BH
began a steady flow of letters to the Times on the topic of women's suffrage: the last of these, written on 2 February 1927, was the plea or... |
Publishing | Florence Dixie | The Times printed a letter from FD
about the rejection of a suffrage bill by the House of Commons
on 30 April, arguing that women must support only politicians who commit themselves in writing to... |
Publishing | Olaudah Equiano | Ten days later the Public Advertiser printed his letter of 13 March to Lord Hawkesbury (later Lord Liverpool)
, President of the Board of Trade, offering material for the committee investigating the slave trade (which... |
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