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By December 1913: Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall published a...

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By December 1913

Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall published a light treatment of domestic life entitled The Book of Martha, with a frontispiece by Augustus John .

July 1203: Constantinople was taken from the Greeks...

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July 1203

Constantinople was taken from the Greeks by Baldwin, Count of Flanders , in the Fourth Crusade.

1836: With the opening of Charles Mitchell's advertising...

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1836

With the opening of Charles Mitchell 's advertising agency, this industry gradually became more organized and reputable.

1895: Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible...

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1895

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 's The Woman's Bible was published in New York.

January 1872: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche published his...

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January 1872

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche published his first major work, Die Geburt der Tragödie (The Birth of Tragedy).

1945: The Cheltenham Festival of Contemporary British...

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1945

The CheltenhamFestival of Contemporary British Music was established.

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë collaborated with her siblings on a body of juvenilia, and by herself wrote a small number of poems and a single surviving novel. Wuthering Heights is established as one of the most original...

8-9 August 1666: In a major English coup of the Second Dutch...

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8-9 August 1666

In a major English coup of the Second Dutch War, Albemarle and Prince Rupert burned a hundred and fifty Dutch merchant ships off the island of Schelling.

30 April 1987: Anna Adams published her poetry volume Six...

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30 April 1987

Anna Adams published her poetry volume Six Legs Good.

Anna Wickham

Anna Wickham was a prolific poet of the earlier twentieth century: in addition to several hundred published poems, more than a thousand remain unpublished.
Hepburn, James et al. “Editor’s Note and Acknowledgements”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, p. xxv - xxvi.
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Her poems, with their unique blend of acerbity and lyricism...

11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...

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11 October 1962

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church .

January 1860: The English Woman's Journal published Elizabeth...

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January 1860

The English Woman's Journal published Elizabeth Blackwell 's article entitled Letter to Young Ladies Desirous of Studying Medicine.

1941: Puffin, a subsidiary of Penguin designed...

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1941

Puffin , a subsidiary of Penguin designed to publish (initially) picture books for children in paperback, issued its first four titles.

March-October 1914: In the USA birth control activist Margaret...

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March-October 1914

In the USA birth control activist Margaret Sanger published a periodical called The Woman Rebel. It was reprinted in facsimile in 1976.

Samuel Johnson

Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...

August 1868: A week after the death of US Jewish writer...

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August 1868

A week after the death of US Jewish writer Adah Isaacs Menken (famous in London as a near-naked daredevil rider on stage in Mazeppa; or, the Wild Horse of Tartary), her poetry volume Infelicia...

February 1786: The New Lady's Magazine: or polite and entertaining...

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February 1786

The New Lady's Magazine: or polite and entertaining companion for the fair sex, edited by the Rev. Charles Stanhope, began publication.

July 1889: The Cleveland Street scandal exposed a male...

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July 1889

The Cleveland Street scandal exposed a male brothel at 19 Cleveland Street, London, and implicated some nobility and members of parliament.

October 1889: Grant Allen's eugenicist essay Plain Words...

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October 1889

Grant Allen 's eugenicist essay Plain Words on the Woman Question in the Fortnightly Review argued that every woman, especially of the middle or upper class, had a duty to produce a minimum of four children.

16 June 1940: Two days after the fall of Paris to the Nazis,...

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16 June 1940

Two days after the fall of Paris to the Nazis , Churchill offered the temporary government of France under Paul Reynaud an indissoluble union of Britain and France, in which every British subject would become...

1961: The University College of Dar-es-Salaam was...

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1961

The University College of Dar-es-Salaam was taken into special relation with the University of London until 1963.

23 July 1992: A new Irish Health (Family Planning) (Amendment)...

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23 July 1992

A new Irish Health (Family Planning) (Amendment) Act lowered the age restriction for the purchase of contraceptives to seventeen.

10 December 1979: Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace...

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10 December 1979

Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ministering to the poor and homeless of India. Early in the following century the process was set in motion for making her a saint.

17 May 1649: John Evelyn went up the Thames to Putney...

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17 May 1649

John Evelyn went up the Thames to Putney with a mostly female party to see the Schooles or Colledges of the young gentlewomen.

1835: The London City Mission was established by...

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1835

The London City Mission was established by Nonconformists and Anglican Evangelicals; similar organizations appeared nationwide.