Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Parliament
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Mary Cary | MC
published Twelve Humble Proposals, a tract dedicated to the Barebones Parliament
; it was apparently her last new publication. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland | DSCS
's father, Sir Robert Sidney, later second Earl of Leicester
, was born on 1 December 1595, Ady, Julia Cartwright. Sacharissa. 3rd ed., Seeley, 1901. 10 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blencowe, Robert, editor. Sydney Papers. J. Murray, 1825. xv |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The title of this essay was invoked in Parliament
ary debate over women's suffrage in 1875. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 234 |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | D'Eon, whom Macaulay respected, was sometimes linked with her as a fellow learned lady by those who thought him to be female. On June 6, 1771 the Public Advertiser carried a spoof report that CM |
| Literary Setting | John Oliver Hobbes | The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Hannah More | She wrote it in haste, to catch the date when the issue was being debated in parliament
. Roberts, William, 1767 - 1849. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More. 4th ed., L. and G. Seeley, 1836, 2 vols., http://Rutherford HSS. 1: 396 |
| Occupation | Eliza Haywood | This was Fielding's last production. Next day Sir Robert Walpole
introduced into parliament
the Licensing Act
, which killed this company and EH
's stage career. Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993. |
| Occupation | Benjamin Disraeli | After several failed attempts, BD
was elected to Parliament
as Conservative
member for Maidstone in Kent in 1837. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
| Occupation | Queen Victoria | QV
opened Parliament
, witnessed by many including Lady Morgan
, who admired her composure and oral delivery. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 73 Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862, 2 vols. 2: 428 |
| Occupation | Richard Hengist Horne | Also in the 1840s, he was among those commissioned by Parliament
to inquire into the conditions resulting from industrialisation. Such Blue Books reported on myriad aspects of the life of the nation. In the case... |
| Occupation | Maude Royden | Between 1923 and January 1924, she used this position to urge the Church to revise its marriage service by removing implications of female subordination in marriage, specifically the command that the wife obey the husband... |
| Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was elected to Parliament
, where she served as the Independent representative of the English Universities. She held this post, through several comfortable election victories, until her death in 1946. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press, 1996. 66 Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz, 1949. 130 |
| Occupation | Philip Dormer Stanhope fourth Earl of Chesterfield | From the age of twenty he held a positon at Court and a seat in Parliament
. After becoming an earl he served in the Privy Council
and as British ambassador at The Hague... |
| Occupation | Thomas Babington first Baron Macaulay | TBBM
received his first public attention after publishing an essay on Milton
in the Edinburgh Review. He later sat for the Whig Party
in Parliament
. There he took a role in passing the... |
| politics | Constance Countess Markievicz | Standing from prison for the constituency of St Patrick's, Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz,
became the first woman elected to the British Parliament
; but, following Sinn Féin
policy, she did not take her seat at Westminster. Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992. 356 Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983. 68-9 |
Timeline
1605: An Act of Parliament authorised the City...
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1605
An Act of Parliament
authorised the City of London for the work and expenditure necessary to create a water supply for its citizens.
Rudden, Bernard. “The Purchas’d Wave”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 28-9.
28
5 November 1605: A group of Catholic plotters, led by Guy...
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5 November 1605
A group of Catholic plotters, led by Guy Fawkes
, made an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament
with gunpowder.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
607
Neill, Michael. “Glimpsed in the Glare”. London Revew of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 24, 17 Dec. 2015, pp. 39-41. 40
9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...
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9 November 1640
In a season during which John Pym
and the Long Parliament
created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
105-6
1641: In a year of a raging bull market for popish...
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1641
In a year of a raging bull market for popish plots
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
108
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
65-6
By 6 June 1641: Thomas Edwards inveighed against the women...
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By 6 June 1641
Thomas Edwards
inveighed against the women preachers of the dissenting sects in Reasons against the Independent Government of Particular Congregations.
Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
17
, No. 2, 1998, pp. 213-33. 216
22 November 1641: Late at night John Pym's demand, the Grand...
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22 November 1641
Late at night John Pym
's demand, the Grand Remonstrance, passed through Parliament
.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
118-19
2 September 1642: A couple of weeks into the first English...
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2 September 1642
A couple of weeks into the first English Civil War, a Puritan -dominated Parliament
issued an edict closing the London theatres.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 September 2008
1 August 1643: Milton published The Doctrine and Discipline...
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1 August 1643
Milton
published The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, a pamphlet arguing that divorce ought to be easier (for a husband).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Milton
8 August 1643: A women's peace petition was laid before...
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8 August 1643
A women's peace petition was laid before parliament
, an early example among many grassroots protests against the Civil War and its effect on ordinary lives.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
280-1
September 1643: Parliament entered into the Solemn League...
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September 1643
Parliament
entered into the Solemn League and Covenant
with the Scots, which committed them to accepting the reformed religion (i.e. Presbyterianism
) in Scotland and establishing it in England.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
112-3
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
233
19 December 1644: Parliament passed an ordinance insisting...
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19 December 1644
Parliament
passed an ordinance insisting that when, in the coming week, Christmas clashed with a monthly fast day, the fast should displace the feast.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
238-41
3 April 1645: The Self-Denying Ordinance provided that...
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3 April 1645
The Self-Denying Ordinance provided that all members of both Houses of Parliament
were to resign from all military or civil offices they had held since 1640. Reappointments were to be made later, according to merit...
16 January 1646: London Aldermen petitioned Parliament against...
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16 January 1646
London Aldermen petitioned Parliament
against the Independent sects on the grounds of their women preaching.
Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
17
, No. 2, 1998, pp. 213-33. 216
6 January 1647: Mary Overton, arrested with her brother-in-law...
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6 January 1647
Mary Overton
, arrested with her brother-in-law Thomas
as they worked on a scandalous pamphlet,
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
479
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
476, 478-90
27 May 1647: Parliament ordered the New Model Army to...
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27 May 1647
Parliament
ordered the New Model Army to disband: a tactical error which merely intensified the army's politicization.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
484-5
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