Parliament

QEI delivered a speech to Parliament in which she declined their petitions that she should marry.

She wrote the last two-thirds of the text between 4 and 31 March 1833. Blessington was ahead of the game with this novel depicting the defeat of the movement for repeal of the Act...

QEI gave before Parliament her golden speech (which for years was assumed to be her last). It was published the same year.

MR was sensitive to the damage done by cultural stereotypes, prejudices, and assumptions about female sexuality. Much of her work argues defiantly against the sexual double standard and the widespread condemnation of female sexuality in...

QEI made her final speech to Parliament before its rising: it is a long speech, again elegiac in tone, delivered to only a small audience, since most of the MPs had already left for their...

This poem both expressed and helped further to fuel the indignation felt by the educated public over the revelation of children's working conditions in the Reports to Parliament of the Children's Employment Commission . (One...

KC may have been one of the Leveller women who petitioned Parliament for the release of John Lilburne ; she may also have been the chief writer of the petition.

Following Priscilla Cotton but preceding Margaret Fell , DW defended women's preaching in A Call from God Out of Egypt, by His Son Christ the Light of Life, which is partly in verse (a...

On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...

FPC 's now intensified campaign on domestic violence found fullest expression in her Contemporary Review essay Wife-Torture in England; it crucially shaped the Matrimonial Causes Act passed by Parliament in May.

According to Carl Ray Woodring , the magazine's heroine from first to last was George Sand . It discussed every genre of the arts, and had also a strong social conscience. In articles such...

AJ wrote to John Cartwright of her fears that parliament would plunder the East, and enslave this nation at their leisure.

The book's satire on parliament for its treatment of women was highly topical at a date two years after the new Divorce Act, three years after the Married Women's Property Committee was formed, and during...

This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes , Thomas Winter , and Robert (Robin) Catesby ; rulers such as King James

Having pointed out that women acquire on marriage an extra set of legal disabilities to go with those they had before, and having argued that without the vote women are in no state to alter...