Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
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politics | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | WMCN
had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords
, organized a petition... |
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... |
politics | Mary Delany | A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the House of Lords
: they included Mary Pendarves (later MD
). Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols. 2: 135-7 |
politics | Frances Jacson | FJ
was a Whig in politics and late in her life a reformist. She followed the slow gestation of the Reform Bill with close interest. When the House of Lords
rejected the Bill in September... |
politics | Monica Furlong | MF
founded the Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod or GRAS
at an evening meeting held in the Moses Room of the House of Lords
, Westminster, and hosted by novelist Ruth Rendell |
politics | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Viscountess Rhondda
petitioned the king for a writ of summons to allow her to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991. 82 |
politics | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | The Committee of Privileges
ruled that on the basis of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919, Viscountess Rhondda
should be allowed to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords
. Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols. 32: 1040 Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991. 82-3 Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora, 1989. 143 |
Publishing | Melesina Trench | |
Reception | Ruth Rendell | The year after being made a CBE, RR
was invited to sit in the House of Lords
as a Life Peer; she took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh
. The Babergh District was created... |
Reception | Mary Prince | The Rev. James Curtin
, the missionary who had baptised MP
, testified to a House of Lords
committee that cruelty to slaves was almost unknown in Antigua. Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. Routledge, 1992. 378n31 |
Reception | Martin Ross | A passage from the book was read in the House of Lords
in 1907, in support of a proposal to build a Channel Tunnel. Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968. 147 |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper
of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one... |
Textual Features | Lucy Knox | The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of... |
Textual Features | Catharine Macaulay | In the copyright row provoked by unauthorised reprints by the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson
, CM
began by asking what practices would benefit literature, and concluded that publishers needed to be able to count on... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | The essay provides the text of the bill she had drafted by Alfred D. Hill
before she threw her weight instead behind an amendment introduced by Lord Penzance
in the Lords
which was able to... |
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