Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1924: Una Ashworth Taylor's sketches of her family...
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1924
Una Ashworth Taylor
's sketches of her family and personal friends, including Lewis Carroll
, was titled Guests and Memories. Annals of a Seaside Villa.
By March 1955: The same year she married Sol Cornberg, Catherine...
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By March 1955
The same year she married Sol Cornberg
, Catherine Gaskin
published Sara Dane, her amazingly successfulnovel based on the life of transported horse-thief Mary Reibey
.
21 April 1910: Mark Twain (or Samuel Langhorn Clemens) died...
21 June 1975: Stephen Wozniak, in the course of designing...
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21 June 1975
Stephen Wozniak
, in the course of designing what became the Apple 1 for what became the company Apple Computers
, first typed a character on a keyboard and saw it appear on a screen.
1534: Henry VIII granted a charter to Cambridge...
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1534
Henry VIII
granted a charter to Cambridge University
giving the right to set up a printing press: Cambridge University Press
, the world's earliest surviving publishing house, printed its first book exactly fifty years later.
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Annie S. Swan
By the age of forty, just before the twentieth century began, ASS
had published probably over thirty books.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode.
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She claimed not to know her lifetime total, but it must have been approaching two hundred...
19 June 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshovka...
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19 June 1963
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshovka returned to Earth aboard the spaceship Vostok VI, after making forty-eight revolutions of the globe in less than three days and becoming the first woman to circle the globe in...
1828: The Madhouse Act was passed, creating legislation...
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1828
The Madhouse Act was passed, creating legislation for the commitment of the insane and for the employment structure of asylums.
Between 900 and 1000: King Eadgar founded eight nunneries and ordered...
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Between 900 and 1000
King Eadgar
founded eight nunneries and ordered a translation of the Benedictine Rule into English.
3 December 1944-12 February 1945: A Greek civil war began in Athens; British...
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3 December 1944-12 February 1945
A Greek civil war began in Athens; British troops intervened in this conflict on the anti-Communist side, and were instrumental in ending the war and then maintaining peace.
4 June 2006: The Sunday Times provoked fears among British...
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4 June 2006
The Sunday Times provoked fears among British authors that agents' fees would become liable to tax: it reported a test case brought against Richard Madeley
and Judy Finnigan
(television presenters of the Richard and Judy Book Club
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Mary Ann Radcliffe
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wrote her feminist tract The Female Advocate from personal indignation at women's inferior earning opportunities, and her Memoirs from a wish to tell the tale of her woes and struggles. The two are not...
January 1964: Arena Three, one of the first magazines in...
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January 1964
Arena Three, one of the first magazines in Europe written by and for lesbians, began irregular publication in London.
28 September 1810: Abraham Goldsmid, a London banker, committed...
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28 September 1810
Abraham Goldsmid
, a London banker, committed suicide; his suicide was symptomatic of the current financial collapse.
December 1894: The monthly Ladies' Gazette of Fashion ceased...
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December 1894
The monthlyLadies' Gazette of Fashion ceased publication.
19 July 1913: Skywriting by aeroplane, a new form of advertising,...
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19 July 1913
Skywriting by aeroplane, a new form of advertising, was first introduced by Milton J. Bryant
in the skies over Seattle, Washington.
17 August 1893: According to scholar Andrea Broomfield, the...
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17 August 1893
According to scholar Andrea Broomfield
, the phrase New Woman made its debut in an article carried by the Woman's Herald: The Social Standing of the New Woman.
1897: The Public Health Act (Scotland) provided...
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1897
The Public Health Act (Scotland) provided for the setting up of isolation hospitals: local smallpox was eradicated in seven years from this Act, after 34 years of compulsory vaccination had failed.
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Charlotte Despard
CD
, who wrote and published during almost sixty years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, began with romantic novels, then allowed her already existent interest in political issues to percolate into her...
1832: The memoir of Robert Blincoe by John Brown...
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1832
The memoir of Robert Blincoe
by John Brown
was re-issued in book form under a new title, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy; Sent From the Workhouse of St. Pancras, London, at...
28 May 1952: St Anne's College, Oxford University, received...
1754: The Rev. William Dodd published his novel...
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1754
The Rev. William Dodd
published his novelThe Sisters; or, The History of Lucy and Caroline Sanson, Entrusted to a False Friend, a morally oversimplified example of the bad-sister-damned/good-sister-saved plot.
1927: Dorothy Buchanan, who assisted on developing...
