Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
17
, No. 2, pp. 213-33. 216
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Sylvia Pankhurst | A permanent, visible memorial to SP
has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline
and Christabel
have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons
; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist... |
| Reception | Monica Furlong | The original book and its successor sold extremely well, and the prayers became widely used. But a rude review in the Daily Telegraph led to questions in the House of Commons
, particularly about a... |
| Reception | Katherine Chidley | The House of Commons
voted to forbid anyone except ordained clergy to preach publicly or to write against church government: a specific target of this vote was KC
, and a general target was women. |
| 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... |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | In the House of Commons
, ER
opposed legislation that lowered married women's health insurance benefits. Wives received less than single women, while both groups received and contributed less than men. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 85 |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | In the House of Commons
, ER
spoke against the government's Incitement to Disaffection Bill, which, she declared, would tear a hole in British liberties through which an elephant may get through [sic]. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 129 |
| politics | Mary Stott | MS
attended the House of Commons
to hear the abortive attempt to get a second reading of the Anti-Discrimination Bill. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 130 |
| politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Strongly anti-armament, LOM
persuaded her Liberal MP husband, Philip Morrell
, to speak in the House of Commons
against Britain's entry into the coming war (later called the Great War, later still World War I). Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux. 195-6 |
| 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 |
Timeline
March 1796: An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual...
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March 1796
An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual abolition of the slave trade, put before the House of Commons
by William Wilberforce
, reached a third reading. It was narrowly defeated when some of its supporters...
31 January 1809: The House of Commons held a hearing on Mary...
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31 January 1809
The House of Commons
held a hearing on Mary Anne Clarke
's alleged selling, for her own profit, of positions in the army.
11 May 1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot...
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11 May 1812
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons
in London by a Liverpool merchant, John Bellingham
, who had been ruined in the course of trade with Russia.
9 June 1812: The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister...
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9 June 1812
The Earl of Liverpool
became Prime Minister following the assassination of Spencer Perceval
.
15 February 1816: Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons:...
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15 February 1816
Lord Elgin
petitioned the House of Commons
: he wanted to compel the British Museum
to buy his collection of ancient Greek artefacts, the Elgin Marbles (especially the famous frieze from the Parthenon in Athens).
1818: A Select Committee of the House of Commons...
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1818
A Select Committee of the House of Commons
recommended that the eleven free copies of books which publishers were currently obliged to provide for the Copyright Libraries be limited to a single copy for the...
4 May 1829: The Earl of Surrey (heir to the Duke of Norfolk)...
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4 May 1829
The Earl of Surrey
(heir to the Duke of Norfolk) became the first Roman Catholic elected to the House of Commons
since the Reformation.
27 December 1831: A major slave uprising, the Baptist War,...
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27 December 1831
A major slave uprising, the Baptist
War, Christmas Rebellion, or Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, began with the setting afire of the Kensington Estate. Over the next two weeks it spread to several more parishes, causing...
18 April 1835: After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in...
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18 April 1835
After the defeat of the Peel
Ministry in the House of Commons
, the second Ministry of Viscount Melbourne
(William Lamb
, a Whig) was formed.
January 1837: The London Working Men's Association prepared...
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January 1837
The London Working Men's Association
prepared a Six Point petition for submission to the House of Commons
.
1838: The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House...
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1838
The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House of Commons
but was rejected by the House of Lords
.
12 July 1839: Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed...
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12 July 1839
Thomas Attwood
and John Fielden
proposed consideration by the House of Commons
of a petition for universal manhood suffrage bearing a million signatures.
1841: The autobiographical A Narrative of the Experience...
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1841
The autobiographicalA Narrative of the Experience and Suffering of William Dodd
: A Factory Cripple appeared in London.
1842: A bill to legalize marriage between a man...
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1842
A bill to legalize marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister was introduced in the House of Commons
. It did not pass.
13 April 1848: The House of Commons rejected the third petition...
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13 April 1848
The House of Commons
rejected the third petition for universal manhood suffrage.
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