Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The final shape of the bill constituted a particular triumph for Rathbone. Though comparatively liberal, the Beveridge Plan was based on the paradigm of the male breadwinner and the dependent wife. |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | She ran this last time because she believed that the House of Commons
still needed a strong voice to further family allowances and measures for refugees. Also, she wrote that there were too few women... |
| politics | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform
in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | On the day that Parliament reconvened, EPL
was among the eleven suffragists famously arrested for staging a demonstration for female suffrage at the House of Commons
. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 165-7 Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin, 1963. 49 |
| politics | Mary Carpenter | The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC
in the welfare of the poor and uneducated. In 1831 the House of Lords
defeated... |
| 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, 1992. 195-6 |
| politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
spent a night in a police-station cell en route for another sojourn in Holloway
, having been arrested along with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
and Lady Sybil Smith
outside the House of Commons
. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 144-5 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
led a deputation of suffragists to the House of Commons
to press the issue of female suffrage on Prime Minister Asquith
, who had neglected the subject in his King's speech at the opening... |
| politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
's first suffrage meeting, in fact, became a deputation heading for the House of Commons
, where it was met by violence. She dreamed about the event that night and joined the WSPU next... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
led a deputation of more than 200 women to the House of Commons
to protest Asquith
's proposed Reform or Manhood Suffrage Bill. On the way some suffragists began breaking windows, ending the militancy truce. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914. 319-20 Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 258-9 |
| politics | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was concerned about women's material conditions as well as formal rights. She laboured to obtain protection for battered women: an opponent in other contexts of flogging, she believed that the only effective remedy for... |
| 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, 1983. chronology Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols. 5: 563-4 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
Timeline
14 March 1856: A petition for Reform of the Married Women's...
National or international item
14 March 1856
A petition for Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
32, 35
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
2: 14
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
208
Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995.
214
14 May 1857: Sir Thomas Erskine Perry and Richard Monckton...
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14 May 1857
Sir Thomas Erskine Perry
and Richard Monckton Milnes presented a Married Women's Property Bill to the House of Commons
.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
45-8
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
2: 14
Earlier 1857: The House of Commons debated what aggravations...
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Earlier 1857
The House of Commons
debated what aggravations a husband could commit that, when coupled with adultery, would justify a wife in suing for divorce.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
42-3
1866: The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme...
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1866
The Royal Society of Arts established a scheme (believed to be the first in the world) for setting up commemorative plaques on buildings associated with famous people.
Quinn, Ben. “Plaque blues. Cuts hit heritage scheme”. Guardian Weekly, 11 Jan. 2013, p. 16.
7 June 1866: John Stuart Mill presented to the House of...
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7 June 1866
John Stuart Mill
presented to the House of Commons
a suffrage petition signed by 1,499 women, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Emily Davies
.
Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
2, 5, 218
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
7
5 April 1867: John Stuart Mill presented the House of Commons...
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5 April 1867
John Stuart Mill
presented the House of Commons
with a second women's suffrage petitionpetition, bearing over three thousand signatures.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
163
21 April 1868: A Married Women's Property Bill prepared...
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21 April 1868
A Married Women's Property Bill prepared by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science
was sponsored by George Shaw Lefevre
and John Stuart Mill
; it stalled because the vote in the House
1870-1885: In the fervent campaign against the Contagious...
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1870-1885
In the fervent campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 900 public meetings were held and 2,606,429 signatures were gathered on 17,367 petitions presented to the House of Commons
.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
116
April 1870: Supporters of Sophia Jex-Blake's campaign...
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April 1870
Supporters of Sophia Jex-Blake
's campaign for female medical education wrote to The Times and The Englishwoman's Review asking women to petition Parliament in support of female doctors.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
120
4 May 1870: Jacob Bright introduced an unsuccessful women's...
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4 May 1870
Jacob Bright
introduced an unsuccessful women's suffrage bill in the House of Commons
; it was the first time female enfranchisement was considered as an issue unto itself.
Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
218, 61
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 25th ed., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911.
1513
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
199
9 August 1870: The Education Act established a national...
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9 August 1870
The Education Act established a national elementary education system governed by local school boards, to which women could be elected.
Simon, Brian. Studies in the History of Education, 1780-1870. Lawrence and Wishart, 1960.
364-5
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
25-6
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
40
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
159
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
4, 35
February 1876: Anna Haslam, a Quaker, established the Dublin...
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February 1876
Anna Haslam
, a Quaker, established the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association
(sometimes known as the Irish Suffrage Society
).
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
23-5
MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
46-7
Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
271
1881: Incandescent electric lighting was installed...
Building item
1881
Incandescent electric lighting was installed at the Savoy Theatre, London.
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
5: 217
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 25th ed., G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911.
416
1888: The Ladies' Gallery at the House of Commons...
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1888
The Ladies' Gallery at the House of Commons
was closed on account of suffragists repeatedly shouting from it in order to disrupt parliamentary proceedings.
Cesvette, Debbie, and Isobel Grundy. Email about the Ladies’ Gallery in the British House of Commons to Isobel Grundy. 23 June 2004.
25 July 1889: The Women's Franchise League, an organisation...
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25 July 1889
The Women's Franchise League
, an organisation committed to including married women in future women's suffrage proposals, was formed in London by Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
, Alice Scatcherd
, and Harriet M'Ilquham
and others.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
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