House of Commons

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...

Mary Agnes Hamilton published a thriller, Murder in the House of Commons.

In gaining her seat she polled more votes than any woman standing for Labour. As some male Labour MPs wore red ties, she wore red shoes in the House of Commons , and was soon...

Virginia Woolf read this novel soon after its publication, with fascinated disapproval. She felt that MAH had energy and ability, and the wits to construct the method of telling a story, but that she had...

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...

CG described her wedding in detail when she resumed writing her journal three weeks after the event. When she first spoke up in church she mumbled a little, but then got her voice under control...

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...

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...

She attended important debates in the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons , and had to read and write for her husband: I grappled with newspapers and Blue-books . . . and learned more...

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...

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...

Lewes , who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, was vindicated when printing after printing was called for (15,000 copies...

LED published The Star to the Wise, which takes the form of a petition to the House of Commons .

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...

The WFL was against violence or damage to property or individual politicians. They organized a protest in which a woman chained herself to the grille of the House of Commons Ladies' Gallery, and they favoured...