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Education | Dorothy Bussy | Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre
. Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain |
Family and Intimate relationships | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) met and became strongly attracted by radical leader (later Tory imperialist) Joseph Chamberlain
. Caine, Barbara. Destined to Be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb. Clarendon, 1986. 79 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Flora Shaw | Joseph Chamberlain
and Winston Churchill
were among the many visitors who were received at Abinger by the Lugards. Bell, E. Moberly. Flora Shaw. Constable, 1947. 288 |
politics | G. B. Stern | As a schoolgirl GBS
had a brief spell of interest in politics, when she admired Joseph Chamberlain
, wanted to get into parliament, and supported tariff reform. In 1933 she was actually sounded out about... |
politics | Mary Kingsley | MK
threw herself into attempting to persuade the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain
, to discontinue the tax. A revolt ensued, which was soon suppressed by Britain, but not before several British officers, missionaries, and traders... |
Textual Features | F. Mabel Robinson | The subtitle defines the period covered as from earliest times to the close of the year 1885. qtd. in 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. |
Textual Production | Flora Shaw | As the Jameson Raid unfolded in the Transvaal, FS
stationed herself at the Colonial Office
in London, where she diplomatically mediated communications between the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain
, and the dictatorial Rhodes, whose telegrams... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucille Iremonger | Her research uncovered the fact that fifteen out of twenty-four prime ministers from Wellington
to Chamberlain
were orphans or illegitimate—even though the 1921 census, soon after the steep rise in mortality brought by the first... |
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