Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann.
319-20
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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. 319-20 Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 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... |
politics | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | JFLW
was no democrat, but an ardent Irish nationalist (as was her future husband). She was deeply discouraged by the failure of the 1848 uprising. She was supportive of the Young Irelanders
and published in... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The militancy of the suffragists changed from being mostly symbolic to being actually embattled on 29 June 1909. That day Emmeline Pankhurst
and her deputation were arrested for refusing to leave the premises at the... |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot
to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords
, her bill was countered in the... |
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 | Constance Lytton | In connection with the suffragist rush on the House of Commons
on the second of these days, CL
, though not yet a militant, involved herself in behind-the-scenes support for the active demonstrators. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 18-30 |
politics | Clara Codd | CC
took part in the rush on the House of Commons
led by Christabel Pankhurst
. She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol
, becoming the... |
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. 144-5 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | About half of the seventy-three Sinn Fein members who were elected were still imprisoned. Sinn Féin
boycotted the House of Commons
and formed the republican parliament Dail Eireann
in Dublin. Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books. 243, 245 Coxhead, Elizabeth. Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Renascence. Secker and Warburg. 104-5 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | During a House of Commons
debate on Indian rule, ER
asserted that the only safeguard against [Indian women's] oppression was to give the women themselves a say. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 111 |
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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