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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Dora Marsden | Following her split with the WSPU
, DM
considered joining the Women's Freedom League
or the Fabian Society
, but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse... |
Instructor | Lady Ottoline Morrell | When she was in her early twenties, William Dalrymple Maclagan
, eighty-eighth Bishop of York, supervised her continuing education and prepared regular reading lists for her. And even after this, intellectual men of her acquaintance... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later LOM
) met Herbert Henry Asquith
. He was married, but she became, according to her own account, really intimate Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. 36 Darroch, Sandra Jobson. Ottoline: The Life of Lady Ottoline Morrell. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. 31, 35-9, 172-3 |
politics | Kate O'Brien | KOB
had been brought up, before the Easter Uprising, to admire Parnell
, John Redmond
, and Mr Asquith
. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford. 112 |
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 | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU
found... |
Violence | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | She worked with Emmeline
and Christabel Pankhurst
, and became a militant suffragette. Like Constance Lytton
, she overcame both natural timidity and physical frailty to take part in demonstrations which were often met with... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Tennant | The story begins a couple of years before the first world war, with the hostile relationship between the author's grandmother, Pamela, the first Lady Glenconner
(a much-quoted hostess and society wit), and Pamela's sister-in-law Margot (Tennant) Asquith |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | IT
's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree
, taught classics at Queen's College
, Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College
. Queen's College was founded for the training of... |
Textual Production | Iris Tree | IT
was writing poetry by the age of ten, exchanging original verses with Nancy Cunard
, who went to day-school with her. By twelve she was impressing future Prime Minister Asquith
, who had read... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | VT
and Prime Minister Asquith
, who was nearly ten years her senior, shared a particularly close and long-lasting friendship, and he corresponded with her during her time in Italy. She had known him... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The wedding attracted so many people that traffic round about St. Martin's Church had for some hours to be diverted. Beerbohm, Max, editor. Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art. Hutchinson. 143 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Viola Tree | VT
's autobiography incorporates diary entries, letters written and received while she studied singing in Milan, and personal memories. I print these letters now, she wrote, partly for my own edification, and partly, I... |
politics | Violet Trefusis | She later stated that the experience gave us the momentary thrill of being behind the scenes, though, of course, we saw nothing, not even the dumpy, grumpy figure of the Prime Minister
. Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson. 72 |
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