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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 Helen Bannerman
HB 's high standing with parents and generations of children in Britain, Europe, the USA, and the British Commonwealth began to be shaken by allegations of racism while she was still alive, though she found...
Reception Victoria Cross
This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour MP George Lansbury commended it as an extraordinary book.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland, 2002.
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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.
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.
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, No. 2, 1998, pp. 213-33.
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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...
Textual Features Mary Ann Kelty
MAK 's opinions are always idiosyncratic and interesting, but she is not a feminist. She quotes Lucy Aikin on being wounded by the privileged insolence of masculine discourse,
qtd. in
Kelty, Mary Ann. The Solace of a Solitaire. Trübner and Co., 1869.
332
only to disagree. I confess that...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
As readers recognized at once, Luke Raeburn, the embattled atheist in this book, noticeably resembles the politician Charles Bradlaugh , who was excluded from taking his seat in the House of Commons after repeatedly being...
Textual Features Maggie Gee
This is also a state-of-England novel, set in a modern Britain which is both both glitzy and frightening. Indeed, the level of looming threat in the story, both explicit and inexplicit, makes it quite hard...
Textual Features Katherine Cecil Thurston
The novel explores a theme central to KCT 's work: that of hidden or reinvented identity, or the hero masquerading as someone he is not. In this plot-driven melodrama with elements of sensationalism, John Loder...
Textual Features Helen Taylor
The essay considers the suffrage petition presented by Mill in 1866 to the House of Commons . While examining the petition, HT gives particular attention to the English constitution and laws that allow women to...
Textual Features Elizabeth Heyrick
EH opens by reminding her readers that although the slave trade had been abolished in Britain and its possessions seventeen years before this, and although trading in slaves was now a felony for British subjects...
Textual Features Susanna Watts
Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...
Textual Features Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL and her husband dedicated their first issue to the brave women who to-day are fighting for freedom: to the noble women who all down the ages kept the flag flying and looked forward to...
Textual Features Elinor James
She opens with the pious wish that the Holy Spirit may guide the lords, and closes by quoting Queen Anne . She hopes the Lords will measure up to the Commons , who have been...
Textual Features Judith Kazantzis
Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

Timeline

1892: The House of Commons appointed a Select Committee...

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1892

The House of Commons appointed a Select Committee to investigate the work of midwives throughout the country.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
167
Witz, Anne. “Patriarchal Relations and Patterns of Sex Segregation in the Medical Division of Labour”. Gender Segregation at Work, edited by Sylvia Walby, Open University Press, 1988, pp. 74-90.
81

12 May 1905: Bamford Slack introduced a women's suffrage...

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12 May 1905

Bamford Slack introduced a women's suffrage bill to the House of Commons for its second reading; but it was talked out on 2 June.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
x

November 1909: The controversial People's Budget of David...

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November 1909

The controversial People's Budget of David Lloyd George passed successfully through the House of Commons ; three weeks later, however, it was vetoed by the Lords .
Sramek, Joseph. “Lloyd George’s ’People’s Budget’, and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, 12 June 1998”. History and Politics: Modern British History.

14 June 1910: The Conciliation Bill, which would extend...

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14 June 1910

The Conciliation Bill, which would extend the vote to women based on the municipal qualification (granted in the Representation of the People Act, 1884) and which would thus enfranchise one million women, passed its...

12 July 1910: The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) passed...

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12 July 1910

The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) passed its second reading by a majority of 299 to 189; the House of Commons also voted to send the Bill to a Committee of the Whole House.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
83-4

28 July 1910: Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons...

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28 July 1910

Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons that the Conciliation Bill on suffrage would receive no more attention that session.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
85

19 November 1910: The Daily Sketch printed a condemnatory report...

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19 November 1910

The Daily Sketch printed a condemnatory report with pictures of the previous day's suffrage demonstration at the House of Commons , couched in a tone of strong disapproval.
Kazantzis, Judith, editor. Women in Revolt: the fight for emancipation: a collection of contemporary documents. Cape, 1968.

9 February 1911: A revised version of the Conciliation Bill...

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9 February 1911

A revised version of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) passed its first reading in the House of Commons .
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
101

2 April 1911: A national census took place in Britain,...

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2 April 1911

A national census took place in Britain, and was widely boycotted by suffragist organizations under the slogan No Vote, No Census.
Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
42
McCarthy, Helen. “The Statistical Gaze”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 11, 29 June 2017, pp. 34-5.
34

5 May 1911: The Conciliation Bill on suffrage, revised...

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5 May 1911

The Conciliation Bill on suffrage, revised this parliamentary session, passed its second Commons reading by a wider majority than before: 255 for, 88 against.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
104-5

10 August 1911: The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords,...

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10 August 1911

The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords , bringing about some curtailment in that body's powers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Asquith

28 March 1912: The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated...

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28 March 1912

The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
294
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
133
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
135
Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
98-100

8 August 1914: Early in the Great War the Defence of the...

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8 August 1914

Early in the Great War the Defence of the Realm Act (later known as DORA) passed the House of Commons without debate, giving the government special powers.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

15 August 1917 : A resolution was passed, without debate,...

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15 August 1917

A resolution was passed, without debate, authorizing the House of Commons to spend up to five pounds dismantling the metal grille on the front of the Ladies' Gallery.
Cesvette, Debbie, and Isobel Grundy. Email about the Ladies’ Gallery in the British House of Commons to Isobel Grundy. 23 June 2004.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols.
32: 1039

1 December 1919: Nancy, Lady Astor (Conservative and Unionist...

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1 December 1919

Nancy, Lady Astor (Conservative and Unionist Party ), became the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
234
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
357
Craig, Fred W. S. British Electoral Facts 1832-1987. 5th ed., Parliamentary Research Services, 1989.
122-3
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
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Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
199
Jack, Ian. “The Best Stuff”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 11, 2 June 2016, pp. 33-7.
33-4

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