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
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Textual Production | Maude Royden | 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... |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | 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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 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... |
Textual Production | Katherine Chidley | 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. 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. 225 |
Textual Production | Dorothy White | 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... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | 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. Cobbe, Frances Power. “Wife-Torture in England”. Contemporary Review, Vol. 32 , 1878, pp. 55-87. prelims Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. Routledge, 1992. 63-4 Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 260-1 |
Textual Production | Melesina Trench | Once more only a single copy survives, at the New York Public Library
. The Customs and Excise tax on salt imported from foreign countries, and into England from Scotland, was widely felt to be... |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
dated her Samsons Legacie; it is now seen as a unity with her appeal to Parliament
dated 3 January 1642. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995. 85ff |
Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | She then went to Oxford, where Parliament
was sitting, to show it to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press, 1995. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Jebb | AJ
wrote to John Cartwright
of her fears that parliament
would plunder the East, and enslave this nation at their leisure. qtd. in Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661. 602 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Antonia Fraser | 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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christabel Pankhurst | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | Many of her essays dealt with women's issues and many were topical. University Degrees for Women (2 June 1877) and University Examinations for Women (2 and 9 February 1878) responded respectively to Parliament
's refusal... |
Timeline
19 April 1780: Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration...
National or international item
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
19 April 1780: Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration...
National or international item
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
15 February 1782: Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met...
National or international item
15 February 1782
Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers
met at Dungannon and adopted resolutions in favour of Ireland's independence from England and relaxation of the Penal Laws.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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. 154-5
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13. 23
Later 1783: The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded...
Writing climate item
Later 1783
The first Anti-Slavery Committee was founded (a precursor to the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
, composed chiefly of Quakers
) and The Case of our Fellow Creatures, the Oppressed Africans was published.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
90
5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...
National or international item
5 November 1788-10 March 1789
George III
's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales
.
Foreman, Amanda. “A politician’s politician: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and the Whig party”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 179-04.
188-9
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
March 1792: The Danish parliament voted to end the slave...
National or international item
March 1792
The Danish parliament voted to end the slave trade to their West Indian colonies.
Gott, Richard. “Don’t glorify slavery ban”. Guardian Weekly, 9–15 Mar. 2007, p. 6.
6
19 December 1792: In a month of national political panic, the...
National or international item
19 December 1792
In a month of national political panic, the British Parliament
introduced an Alien Bill to limit the entry of emigrants from France.
Russell, Gillian. “Burke’s Dagger: Theatricality, Politics and Print Culture in the 1790s”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, 1997, pp. 1-16. 1-2
18 February 1793: Roman Catholic freeholders in Ireland were...
National or international item
18 February 1793
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
119
Keenan, Desmond. The Grail of Catholic Emancipation 1793 to 1829. XLibris, 2002.
chapter 2
26 October 1795: Just before the opening of parliament, the...
National or international item
26 October 1795
Just before the opening of parliament
, the London Corresponding Society
held a large open-air meeting at Copenhagen House in Islington.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
384-5
29 October 1795: A crowd surrounded George III's coach on...
National or international item
29 October 1795
A crowd surrounded George III
's coach on its way to the state opening of parliament
; someone threw a stone.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
241
Russell, Gillian. “Burke’s Dagger: Theatricality, Politics and Print Culture in the 1790s”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
20
, 1997, pp. 1-16. 14
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
386
18 December 1795: The Two Acts or Gagging Acts (the Treasonable...
National or international item
18 December 1795
The Two Acts or Gagging Acts (the Treasonable Practices Bill and Seditious Meetings Bill) were passed by parliament
, to remain in force for extended periods.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
387-8
26 February 1797: The Bank of England, alarmed by a run on...
National or international item
26 February 1797
The Bank of England
, alarmed by a run on gold prompted by fears of invasion from Napoleonic
France, prohibited payments in cash: in May this prohibition was enforced by legislation establishing a period of Restriction.
Palk, Deirdre. “’Fit Objects for Mercy’: Gender, the Bank of England and Currency Criminals, 1804-1833”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 237-58. 237-40
15 May 1797: Henry Grattan and other Opposition members...
National or international item
15 May 1797
Henry Grattan
and other Opposition members seceded from the Irish parliament
(i.e. ceased to attend); they saw it as a tool of despotism.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
15 January 1800: The Irish parliament met for what was to...
National or international item
15 January 1800
The Irish parliament
met for what was to be its last session.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Henry Grattan
30 May 1800: Parliament debated a Divorce Bill....
Building item
30 May 1800
Parliament
debated a Divorce Bill.
Brett, Simon, b. 1945, editor. The Faber Book of Diaries. Faber, 1987.
193
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