Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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David Lloyd George
Standard Name: Lloyd George, David
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Characters | Pat Barker | This book incorporates the experiences, not only of writers turned soldiers and medical scientists turned enablers of fighting, but also of pacifist agitators. The character Beattie Roper is based on the historical Alice Wheeldon
... |
| Textual Production | Mona Caird | The WSPU intended to take this action because the Federation meeting, scheduled for 6 December, was to be addressed by Lloyd George
, and the WSPU had made a general resolution to seek publicity for... |
| Occupation | Gillian Clarke | She and Meic Stephens
had first seen the house in August 1989: a building of Queen Anne appearance, with some parts dating from more than a century earlier, once owned by David Lloyd George
... |
| Textual Features | Clara Codd | It provides a detailed history of her life so far. Focusing on her work with Theosophy, she also gives details about her upbringing in North Devon and her aversion to the fear-inducing side of Christianity... |
| Reception | Rosita Forbes | Signatures were gathered for a presentation volume for RF
; early signatories were the Prince of Wales
and the Prime Minister
. The presentation was made at a reception attended by peers, peeresses, and bishops... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
marched in a London procession in support of the Conciliation Bill (which had just been dropped from parliament's schedule by Lloyd George
for the second year running); she urged both militants and constitutionalists alike... |
| Friends, Associates | Elinor Glyn | Thnere she met Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George
, who helped to engineer the Versailles Peace Treaty. Her staunchly conservative views made it matter for surprise that she found him much smarter [in appearance]... |
| Occupation | Elinor Glyn | The only other woman to witness the signing was Frances Stevenson
, mistress of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George
. |
| politics | Margaret Kennedy | MK
's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith
(1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was... |
| Textual Features | Ada Leverson | In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers... |
| politics | Constance Lytton | CL
, with ten other militant suffragettes, was detained after causing a disturbance at a visit of David Lloyd George
to Newcastle. The word suffragette, despite its apparently demeaning diminutive, was at the... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | MHVR
presented a memorandum from the Women's Industrial League
to PM David Lloyd George
demanding a restructuring of post-war employment policies, to include women in high-paying, skilled industries. |
| politics | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The couple had met for the first time at Percy Alden
's Canning Town Settlement
in 1899, when Emmeline and Mary Neal had brought the Dramatic Society of the Espérance Working Girls' Club
to Alden's... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Eleanor Rathbone | This work was an extension of a declaration released by the press on 31 January 1937. In that declaration, signatories including the Duchess of Atholl
, Winston Churchill
, David Lloyd George
, Robert Cecil |
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8 December 1908: David Lloyd George denounced suffragette...
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8 December 1908
David Lloyd George
denounced suffragette militancy at a meeting of the Women's Liberal Federation
.
November 1909: The controversial People's Budget of David...
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November 1909
The controversial People's Budget of David Lloyd George
passed successfully through the House of Commons
; three weeks later, however, it was vetoed by the Lords
.
January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...
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January 1910
A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George
's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative
and [Ulster] Unionist Parties
came in only two votes behind the Liberals
28 July 1910: Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons...
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28 July 1910
Lloyd George
announced in the House of Commons
that the Conciliation Bill on suffrage would receive no more attention that session.
29 May 1911: Lloyd George announced that the Government...
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29 May 1911
Lloyd George
announced that the Government would not give full facilities to the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) during the current session, but would do so in the next session.
10 August 1911: The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords,...
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10 August 1911
The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords
, bringing about some curtailment in that body's powers.
7 November 1911: The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry...
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7 November 1911
The British Prime Minister, Herbert Henry Asquith
, told members of the People's Suffrage Federation
that his Liberal government would bring forward, next session, a Manhood Suffrage Bill or Reform Bill.
16 December 1911: The National Insurance Act received Royal...
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16 December 1911
The National Insurance Act received Royal Assent; it introduced maternity benefits (payable to husbands) and covered manual workers from sixteen to seventy employed in certain industries subject to recurrent unemployment.
February 1913: The Women's Social and Political Union began...
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February 1913
The Women's Social and Political Union
began a concerted campaign of destruction of public and private property.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland.
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26 May 1915: Herbert Henry Asquith formed a wartime Coalition...
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26 May 1915
Herbert Henry Asquith
formed a wartime Coalition government.
7 December 1916: Two days after Asquith resigned from the...
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7 December 1916
Two days after Asquith
resigned from the leadership of the British wartime coalition government, David Lloyd George
became Prime Minister.
13 January 1917: Working-class ex-suffragist Alice Wheeldon...
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13 January 1917
Working-class ex-suffragist Alice Wheeldon
was arrested on the testimony of intelligence agents posing as conscientious objectors, along with her two daughters and a genuine conscientious objector they were harbouring.
14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...
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14 December 1918
The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.
12 January 1919: David Lloyd George's arrival in Paris for...
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12 January 1919
David Lloyd George
's arrival in Paris for the peace conference provoked immediate controversy when he requested that all British dominions should be represented by their own delegations.
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