Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House.
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Travel | Freya Stark | While FS
's lecture tour of the USA on behalf of the British government sparked policy debates in the House of Commons
, the American press was fascinated by the female Lawrence
of Arabia. Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. Passionate Nomad. Random House. 312 |
Travel | Sarojini Naidu | SN
tried to attend a debate on the subject of India at the House of Commons
in London, but was refused entry because women were not allowed to sit in the Special Gallery. Naidu, Sarojini. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s. Editor Paranjape, Makarand, Kali for Women. 267 |
Travel | Charlotte Brontë | CB
also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes
. She attended the House of Commons
, the Chapel Royal
, where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington
, and a meeting of... |
Travel | Emmeline Pankhurst | After the House of Commons
voted in favour of a bill enfranchising women over thirty, EP
visited Petrograd (now once again St Petersburg) and Moscow. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 159-61 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 51 |
Travel | Katharine Tynan | During her trip she frequented the House of Commons
where, in the Ladies' Gallery, she listened to parliamentary debates. Tynan, Katharine. Twenty-Five Years: Reminiscences. Smith, Elder. 136 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Since no translator's name appears, it is possible though by no means certain that MAH
here wrote in French. She covers her subject—British democracy in its history, manifestations, and underlying nature—lucidly and succinctly. Part... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Flora Tristan | According to critic Susan Grogan
, the book defies generic classification, blending elements of the political tract, the novel, and the statistical enquiry into social conditions. Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge. 71 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
published a thriller, Murder in the House of Commons. Mavrogordato, E. E. “Murder in the House of Commons”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1550, p. 798. 798 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC
was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a... |
Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM
again became involved politically when the House of Commons
was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
's boldness of thought and vigour of style made readers suspect that this pamphlet was the work of a man; it was quoted as such in the House of Commons
. Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67. 49 |
Textual Production | Caroline Bowles | The book preceded Caroline Norton
's A Voice from the Factories by three years. It includes a dedication to economist and social reformer Michael Thomas Sadler
, who fought to improve child labour conditions. Bowles... |
Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
composed and signed in her husband
's name a petition that the House of Commonswould not exclude me from the refuge of the King
's most gratious pardon. Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction”. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, edited by James Sutherland, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xx. xxix Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press. 290-2 |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
published The Star to the Wise, which takes the form of a petition to the House of Commons
. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 101ff |
Textual Production | Melesina Trench | It appears from the only two extant library listings of this tract or broadside (in the New York Public Library
and the University of Texas at Austin
) that the title was added in Trench's... |