Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1839: Louis Jacques Daguerre announced his discovery...
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1839
Louis Jacques Daguerre
announced his discovery of a photographic process; his daguerrotypes were silver images produced on copper plates.
Science in the Nineteenth Century. Editor Taton, René, Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol.
3
, Basic Books, 1965.
150
July 1780: Robert Raikes opened his first Sunday sc...
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Laqueur, Thomas. Religion and Respectability. Yale University Press, 1976.
21-6
This inaccuracy persists although the Dictionary of National Biography specifically says Raikes's school was not the first.
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Julia Kristeva
JK
is one of the three French feminist theorists whose writings dominated the field of British and especially French and North American literary criticism and humanities scholarship during the 1980s and 1990s. Particularly influential have...
18 December 1914: The British protectorate over Egypt was ...
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18 December 1914
The British protectorate over Egypt was proclaimed.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 593
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
870
6 November 1910: Roger Fry organised the Manet and Post-Impressionists...
3 April 1849: Frederick William IV's refusal of the imperial...
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3 April 1849
Frederick William IV
's refusal of the imperial crown of Germany signalled the end of the Frankfurt Assembly, which collapsed in December 1849.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
176-7, 256
Christmas Day 1989: In Romania, Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu,...
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Christmas Day 1989
In Romania, Elena
and Nicolae Ceausescu
, whose regime was hideously oppressive in social policies, particularly those of gender, were shot by army firing squad after being removed from office by popular uprising.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Penguin, 1998.
239
1868: Actress and music-hall star Vesta Tilley...
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1868
Actress and music-hall star Vesta Tilley
(born Matilda Alice Powles) made her stage debut at the age of four at the Theatre Royal
in Gloucester.
Maitland, Sara. Vesta Tilley. Virago, 1986.
ix, 1-2, 11, 15-6, 18-9
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Barbara Pym
BP
was a distinguished, understatedly comic novelist of the twentieth century, whose autobiographical writings (diaries, letters, and notebooks) were published only after her death.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
1-2, 9
Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.
xiii-xiv
Having achieved moderate success during her early career...
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
335-7
1960: Following the recommendations of the Anderson...
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1960
Following the recommendations of the Anderson Report, a national scheme operated by Local Education Authorities
supplied grants for all university students, subject to means testing.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
101-2
10 August 1911: The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords,...
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10 August 1911
The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords
, bringing about some curtailment in that body's powers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Asquith
9 January 1799: A bill bringing in the first graduated income...
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9 January 1799
A bill bringing in the first graduated income tax resulted from William Pitt
's demand in December 1798 for increased taxation to fund the war with France.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Income Tax
23 November 1644: John Milton published Areopagitica, which...
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23 November 1644
John Milton
published Areopagitica, which has become one of his most famous prose tracts because of its subject-matter: a condemnation of censorship, or (stretching its original position slightly) even a defence of freedom of...
1787: In France, Condorcet published Lettres d'un...
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1787
In France, Condorcet
published Lettres d'un bourgeois de Newhaven, which makes a serious and straightforward case for full civil rights for women, including suffrage.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
132
1680: The first of the London squares, Bloomsbury...
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1680
The first of the London squares, Bloomsbury Square, was developed, setting a style for the houses of the upper classes and urban middle ranks for over a century.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
1
12 October 1984: The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton...
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12 October 1984
The IRA
bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party
was holding a conference.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
937, 979-80
7 December 1789: Hester Lynch Piozzi heard the African John...
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.
1: 330-1 and nn2-4
14 January 1921: Rosita Forbes (disguised as a Muslim woman)...
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14 January 1921
Rosita Forbes
(disguised as a Muslim woman) and Hassanein Bey
travelled from Cyrenaica to Kufra in the Libyan desert.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 593
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1075
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L. S. Bevington
LSB
was an essayist, philosopher and poet, one of a very small handful of publishing anarcho-communist women. She issued three collections of poetry, over thirty essays, and a small number of translations in the latter...
12 April 1883: The National Liberal Federation passed a...
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.