Schwoerer, Lois. Lady Rachel Russell: "One of the Best of Women". Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Christopher Marlowe | Standard accounts of his death used to say that it was a brawl, largely caused by himself. But accident seems unlikely. He had recently been brought in for questioning by the Privy Council
, but... |
| Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
developed important ties in Canada. Her personal influence was acknowledged by every one of the famous five (Emily Murphy
, Henrietta Muir Edwards
, Louise McKinney
, Irene Parlby
, and Nellie McClung |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Green | This was the prophetRichard Brothers
, millenarian and British Israelite
, a man of talent and eccentricity who already had a colourful career behind him. She was forced to evict him when he failed... |
| Health | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
suffered an attack of smallpox which she barely survived. The question of the succession loomed, and Burghley
actually wrote a memo instructing the Privy Council
, in the event of her death, to appoint... |
| 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... |
| politics | Queen Elizabeth I | With the help of William Cecil
, QEI
acted swiftly and decisively to establish her regime by appointing a new, slimmer, less ecclesiastical Privy Council
. England and its monarch were both in weak positions... |
| politics | Lady Rachel Russell | LRR
's husband
was accused of High Treason before the Privy Council
and sent to the Tower of London. |
| Reception | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
was imprisoned in Newgate
to await trial at the Old Bailey
criminal court for her publication (which Jacob Tonson
, reporting this, called a Libell upon the whole Government. At the same time, by... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Cellier | The printing of EC
's famous pamphlet, Malice Defeated, her account of the false accusation laid against her in the Meal Tub Plot, was halted by the Privy Council
. Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, and Elizabeth Cellier. “Introduction”. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988, p. iii - xiv. vii-viii |
| Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | QEI
wrote a letter to a member of her Privy Council
and another civil servant, to authorise the use of torture in extracting intelligence from suspected plotters. Elizabeth I, Queen. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. Editors Marcus, Leah S. et al., University of Chicago Press, 2000. 127 |
| Textual Production | Anne Whitehead | They both set their names on the title-page, but Elson is said inside to be the author of one short passage only. Their fuller title was An Epistle for True Love, Unity, and Order in... |
| Textual Production | Queen Victoria | Victoria's first publication was Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands. The idea for publishing selections from her journal arose when the queen showed editor Arthur Helps
extracts of the memoirs... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Green | SG
had dreams after the departure of Brothers (who had apparently lodged with her), which identified him as Christ or John the Baptist. She claims she was personally pressured by members of the Privy Council |
| Travel | Elizabeth Bathurst | EB
went on a preaching journey to Bristolin the time of the hottest Persecution [of Quakers] there Bathurst, Elizabeth. Truth Vindicated. T. Sowle, 1691. av Bristol was the base of... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Elizabeth Clinton Countess of Lincoln | After a dozen years of marriage, however, her parents-in-law were being pressed by the Privy Council
(at the behest of Queen Elizabeth
) to provide suitable accommodation for the young couple and their growing family. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
1538: The Privy Council first began licensing books...
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1538
The Privy Council
first began licensing books for print.
Sedley, Stephen. “After Leveson”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 7, 11 Apr. 2013, p. 16. July 1550: A warrant was issued for money setting up...
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July 1550
A warrant was issued for money setting up Humphrey Powell
as royal printer in Dublin. Next year he issued an edition of The Book of Common Prayer which was the first book published in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...
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December 1681
The Privy Council
moved against Quakers
and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
153
From about 1693: British seamen based on the island of Madagascar...
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From about 1693
British seamen based on the island of Madagascar mounted an escalating series of pirate attacks on passing shipping; plans were formed for procuring them pardon (at a price).
Baer, Joel H. “Penelope Aubin and the Pirates of Madagascar: Biographical Notes and Documents”. Eighteenth- Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 49-62. 49-52
28 September 1707: The Privy Council turned down a scheme by...
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28 September 1707
The Privy Council
turned down a scheme by entrepreneurs including John Breholt
for ending piracy by disaffected and allegedly very wealthy British seamen off the island of Madagascar.
Baer, Joel H. “Penelope Aubin and the Pirates of Madagascar: Biographical Notes and Documents”. Eighteenth- Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work, and Culture, edited by Linda V. Troost, Vol.
1
, 2001, pp. 49-62. 49-52
1720: The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence...
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1720
The Declaratory Act spelled out the dependence of the Dublinparliament
on the English one at Westminster.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197. 72
1773: A bill that had been enacted by the colonial...
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1773
A bill that had been enacted by the colonial legislature of Pennsylvania to permit divorce was disallowed by the Privy Council
in London.
Staves, Susan. Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660 - 1833. Harvard University Press, 1990.
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19 April 1780: Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration...
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19 April 1780
Henry Grattan
made an impassioned declaration to the Irish parliament
of the legislative independence of Ireland from England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
30 May 1782: The Duke of Portland, Lord Lieutenant of...
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30 May 1782
The Duke of Portland
, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, announced in the House of Lords
a new Bill of Rights for Ireland: the Dublin Parliament
was freed from the rule of the British Privy Council
March 1884: Dadaji Bhikaji, the husband of Rukhmabai,...
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March 1884
Dadaji Bhikaji
, the husband of Rukhmabai
, a twenty-two-year-old Indian woman who had been married to him at the age of eleven, began legal proceedings in Bombay to force his wife to cohabit with...
Late September 1885: Justice Pinhey of the Bombay High Court gave...
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Late September 1885
Justice Pinhey
of the Bombay High Court
gave the first verdict in the case against Rukhmabai
: that her husband
's action to compel her to cohabit with him could not be maintained. This was...
17 July 1917: George V informed the Privy Council that...
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17 July 1917
George V
informed the Privy Council
that the royal family (all his subjects descended from Queen Victoria) would take the surname of Windsor.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
30 May 1929: Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of...
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30 May 1929
Labour
came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives
in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election....
February 1930: Four months after the Persons Case brought...
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February 1930
Four months after the Persons Case brought before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
in England in October 1929, Cairine Wilson
became the first woman appointed to the Canadian Senate
.
“Women’s Right to Vote in Canada”. Paarliament of Canada: A to Z Index: Women, 1 Feb. 1999.
“Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson”. Library and Archives Canada: Printing and Publishing: Celebrating Women’s Achievements: First Women in Provincial and Territorial Legislatures.
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