Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann.
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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 258-9 |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Over the course of his lifetime, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
served in the House of Commons
for eighteen years and in the House of Lords
for sixteen. He became the Secretary of State for India and for... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Travel | Emmeline Pankhurst | After the House of Commons
voted in favour of a bill enfranchising women over thirty, EP
visited Petrograd (now once again St Petersburg) and Moscow. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 159-61 Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 51 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Pankhurst | During the years 1987-92 and again in 1997, Jacqueline Mulhallen
toured England and Ireland with a one-woman show about SP
(at first intended just for schools in London's East End). The performance was accompanied by... |
| Friends, Associates | Ouida | In London, Ouida
took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel
, where in one night she entertained Robert Browning
, Oscar Wilde
, Robert Lytton
, and Lord Ronald Gower
... |
| politics | Caroline Norton | Thomas Noon Talfourd
gave notice early in 1837 of a House of Commons
motion on this subject, and the Bill was printed. But immediately after this CN
's husband relented and allowed her to see... |
| Travel | Sarojini Naidu | SN
tried to attend a debate on the subject of India at the House of Commons
in London, but was refused entry because women were not allowed to sit in the Special Gallery. Naidu, Sarojini. Sarojini Naidu, Selected Letters 1890s to 1940s. Editor Paranjape, Makarand, Kali for Women. 267 |
| 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. 195-6 |
| Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In 1866 JSM
presented to the House of Commons
with parliament's first major suffrage petition. The petition, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Emily Davies
, and signed by... |
| Occupation | John Stuart Mill | In 1867 Mill presented the House
with a second petition in support of women's suffrage, signed by more than twice as many women as the first. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 163 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary, Countess Cowper | William, Earl Cowper
, husband of MCC
, was examined before a committee of the House of Commons
on suspicion of Jacobite sympathies. In 1722 the actual Jacobite conspirator Christopher Layer
, while under investigation... |
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March 1796: An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual...
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March 1796
An Abolition Bill, calling for the gradual abolition of the slave trade, put before the House of Commons
by William Wilberforce
, reached a third reading. It was narrowly defeated when some of its supporters...
31 January 1809: The House of Commons held a hearing on Mary...
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31 January 1809
The House of Commons
held a hearing on Mary Anne Clarke
's alleged selling, for her own profit, of positions in the army.
11 May 1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot...
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11 May 1812
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons
in London by a Liverpool merchant, John Bellingham
, who had been ruined in the course of trade with Russia.
9 June 1812: The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister...
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9 June 1812
The Earl of Liverpool
became Prime Minister following the assassination of Spencer Perceval
.
15 February 1816: Lord Elgin petitioned the House of Commons:...
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15 February 1816
Lord Elgin
petitioned the House of Commons
: he wanted to compel the British Museum
to buy his collection of ancient Greek artefacts, the Elgin Marbles (especially the famous frieze from the Parthenon in Athens).
1818: A Select Committee of the House of Commons...
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1818
A Select Committee of the House of Commons
recommended that the eleven free copies of books which publishers were currently obliged to provide for the Copyright Libraries be limited to a single copy for the...
4 May 1829: The Earl of Surrey (heir to the Duke of Norfolk)...
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4 May 1829
The Earl of Surrey
(heir to the Duke of Norfolk) became the first Roman Catholic elected to the House of Commons
since the Reformation.
27 December 1831: A major slave uprising, the Baptist War,...
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27 December 1831
A major slave uprising, the Baptist
War, Christmas Rebellion, or Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, began with the setting afire of the Kensington Estate. Over the next two weeks it spread to several more parishes, causing...
18 April 1835: After the defeat of the Peel Ministry in...
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18 April 1835
After the defeat of the Peel
Ministry in the House of Commons
, the second Ministry of Viscount Melbourne
(William Lamb
, a Whig) was formed.
January 1837: The London Working Men's Association prepared...
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January 1837
The London Working Men's Association
prepared a Six Point petition for submission to the House of Commons
.
1838: The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House...
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1838
The Infant Custody Bill passed in the House of Commons
but was rejected by the House of Lords
.
12 July 1839: Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed...
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12 July 1839
Thomas Attwood
and John Fielden
proposed consideration by the House of Commons
of a petition for universal manhood suffrage bearing a million signatures.
1841: The autobiographical A Narrative of the Experience...
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1841
The autobiographicalA Narrative of the Experience and Suffering of William Dodd
: A Factory Cripple appeared in London.
1842: A bill to legalize marriage between a man...
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1842
A bill to legalize marriage between a man and his deceased wife's sister was introduced in the House of Commons
. It did not pass.
13 April 1848: The House of Commons rejected the third petition...
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13 April 1848
The House of Commons
rejected the third petition for universal manhood suffrage.
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