Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Production | Catherine Marsh | Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM
again became involved politically when the House of Commons
was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8... |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The intellectual influence of CM
's History was particularly important for the generation of American patriots who shaped the United States. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 184-5 |
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 | Edna Lyall | EL
met Charles Bradlaugh
after writing to him about a review of her second novel, Donovan, published in his National Reformer. Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood. 28 |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edna Lyall | She was helped with research for this book by Justin McCarthy
, a member of parliament who regularly escorted her to the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons
to hear debates on Ireland, and... |
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, Kelty, Mary Ann. The Solace of a Solitaire. Trübner and Co. 332 |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Elinor James | In Mrs. James's Thanks to the Lords
and Commons
for their great Sincerity to King George, EJ
again marked an anniversary in national political life and in her career as its interpreter. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 308 |
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 Production | Lucy Hutchinson | LH
composed and signed in her husband
's name a petition that the House of Commonswould not exclude me from the refuge of the King
's most gratious pardon. Hutchinson, Lucy. “Introduction”. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, edited by James Sutherland, Oxford University Press, p. xi - xx. xxix Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press. 290-2 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
's boldness of thought and vigour of style made readers suspect that this pamphlet was the work of a man; it was quoted as such in the House of Commons
. Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, pp. 41-67. 49 |
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... |
Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed |
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