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2 giorni fa · But other less well known pieces of legislation (e.g. the Indecent Advertisement Acts) are also examined and individual cases are used to illustrate current opinion and practice - like Edith Lanchester who in 1895 was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum by her parents when she announced that she wanted to live in a free union with a ...
2 giorni fa · One of the most notorious of these cases was that of Edith Lanchester, who was confined by her family in 1895 for taking up with a railwayman, and therefore seems to fit the Victorian pattern, but who was in fact released four days later as the result of public outrage.
1 giorno fa · Lancaster, Lancashire. / 54.04889°N 2.80139°W / 54.04889; -2.80139. Lancaster ( / ˈlæŋkəstər /, / ˈlænkæs -/) [2] is a city [3] in Lancashire, England and the main cultural hub, economic and commercial centre of City of Lancaster district. The city is on the River Lune directly inland from Morecambe Bay.
1 giorno fa · Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) [4] is a public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established in 1964 by royal charter, [5] as one of several new universities created in the 1960s.
3 giorni fa · The parish of Edith Weston, which takes its name from Edith, queen of Edward the Confessor, comprises a long narrow strip of land containing 1852 acres. The land is undulating and falls from about 400 ft. above the Ordnance datum in the south-west to about 200 ft. along the River Gwash, which forms the boundary between Edith Weston ...
2 giorni fa · The Chapelry of Medomsley is bounded on the North by the Darwent, dividing it from the Parish of Ryton; by the Pontburn, separating it from Tanfield Chapelry and from Lanchester, on the East; by Lanchester on the South-East and South, by the Parish of Muggleswick on the South-West; by the Darwent, dividing it from Northumberland, on ...
3 giorni fa · One is Edith Stein, a remarkable woman who earned a doctorate in philosophy in the 1930s, when this field was largely composed of males. Born into a Jewish family, she converted to Catholicism and became a philosophy instructor before entering religious life, taking the name Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.
