Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
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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... |
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. 165-7 Brittain, Vera. Pethick-Lawrence: A Portrait. George Allen and Unwin. 49 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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 | Eleanor Rathbone | When the House of Commons
first debated the extermination of the Jews and other despised minorities in Germany and conquered nations, ER
urged Britain to secure safety for refugees in neutral states. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 135 |
Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was the object of misogynistic attacks, personal and professional, throughout her parliamentary career. When she was absent from a House of Commons
debate in June 1942, someone called A. McLaren commented, I see that... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | The movement of this bill involved many prominent women in the House of Commons
: it had been introduced by Margaret Bondfield
, the nation's first female cabinet minister, while Jennie Lee
, Lady Cynthia Moseley |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | She remained a staunch feminist and patriot. As she had recognized two decades earlier, times of war did allow for social change and improvement, despite the extensive, brutal devastation of armed conflict. On 20 March... |
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. Pedersen, Susan. Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain and France, 1914-1945. Cambridge University Press. 343 |
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... |
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