Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Alice Oswald
AO is a contemporary poet, the first to hold the historic position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. Her work includes multimedia and performance poetry.
September 1911: The first official airmail service in Britain...
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September 1911
The first official airmail service in Britain began.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Robinson, Howard. Carrying British Mails Overseas. George Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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Walker, George. Haste, Post, Haste!: Postmen and Post-Roads Through the Ages. Dodd, Mead, 1938.
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By 14 April 1855: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his...
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By 14 April 1855
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his first book of poetry, Clytemnestra, The Earl's Return, The Artist, and Other Poems, as Owen Meredith.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
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21 July 1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike became Prime Minister...
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21 July 1960
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became Prime Minister of Ceylon, and the first woman head of state in the Commonwealth.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
670, 676
1973: The inaugural Businesswoman of the Year award...
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1973
The inaugural Businesswoman of the Year award was bestowed upon Stella Brummel, managing director of the machinery company Benford Ltd.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1965: The United States abolished the quotas which...
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1965
The United States abolished the quotas which had restricted immigration on the basis of nationality since the National Origins Act of 1924.
Kennedy, David. “Leur Pays”. London Review of Books, 22 Feb. 2001, pp. 24-5.
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February 2000: The Royal Court Theatre re-opened after having...
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February 2000
The Royal Court Theatre re-opened after having shut down for rebuilding in 1997.
“About. Outline/History”. Royal Court.
December 1463: In a letter to Sir William Plumpton, Bryan...
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December 1463
In a letter to Sir William Plumpton, Bryan Roucliffe praised Margaret Plumpton, aged four, for having nearly learned her psalter: that is, to say the psalms by heart.
Orme, Nicholas. From Childhood to Chivalry: The Education of the English Kings and Aristocracy, 1066-1530. Methuen, 1984.
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Stapleton, Thomas. The Plumpton Correspondence. Printed for the Camden Society by J. B. Nichols and Son, 1839.
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1891: Caroline Lindsay published her three-volume...
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1891
Caroline Lindsay published her three-volume novel Bertha's Earl.
Madame Rachel (Sarah Rachel Leveison) opened the beauty salon Beautiful for Ever at 47 Bond Street, London.
McLaughlin, Terence. The Gilded Lily. Cassell, 1972.
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Gunn, Fenja. The Artificial Face: A History of Cosmetics. David and Charles, 1973.
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Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. Studio Vista, 1970.
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Whitlock, Tammy. “A ’Taint Upon Them’: The Madame Rachel Case, Fraud, and Retail Trade in Ninteenth Century England”. Victorian Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 June 1998– 2025, pp. 29-52.
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1967: Karen Horney's articles on feminism were...
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1967
Karen Horney's articles on feminism were published posthumously in Feminine Psychology.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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1928: Blanche Winder (who had given up using her...
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1928
Blanche Winder (who had given up using her former pseudonym) published a novel entitled Trespassers in Paradise. Its topic is a socially unacceptable love-relationship.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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.
1891: The Palace Theatre of Varieties (an earlier...
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1891
The Palace Theatre of Varieties (an earlier theatre under a new name) opened at Cambridge Circus in London: its shows were more daring, more scantily dressed, than those at the Empire.
Walkowitz, Judith R. “Women Writing / Women Performing in the Imperial Metropolis”. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Lawrence, KS, 17 Mar. 2001.
5 February 1961: The Sunday Telegraph newspaper began pub...
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5 February 1961
The Sunday Telegraph newspaper began publication.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
30 March 1851: The British census showed the proportion...
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30 March 1851
The British census showed the proportion of women in paid employment to have risen from 22.9% to 28.9% in the previous decade; among the employed, the proportion in domestic service had risen to about 80%...
1832: England, France and Russia signed a second...
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1832
England, France and Russia signed a second Treaty of London (two years after the first), which recognized Greece's complete independence from Turkey.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
1919: Alice Clark published her ground-breaking...
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1919
Alice Clark published her ground-breaking The Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. She opened a new topic in history: women's work was as yet unexamined in other periods besides this one.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Clark and Pinchbeck
26 July 1769: The London Chronicle reported Susannah Lott's...
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26 July 1769
The London Chronicle reported Susannah Lott's execution by burning, near Maidstone in Kent, for the petty treason of poisoning her husband.
Oldham, James. “Law Reporting in the London Newspapers, 1756-1786”. American Journal of Legal History, Vol.
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, No. 3, –July 1987, pp. 173-06.
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Staves, Susan. Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660 - 1833. Harvard University Press, 1990.
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10 December 1997: Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace...
1763: General Jeffrey Amherst, British commander...
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1763
General Jeffrey Amherst, British commander in North America, suggested that smallpox might advantageously be introduced among the disaffected tribes of Indians currently being led in rebellion by Pontiac.
Gott, Richard. “Shoot them to be sure”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 26-9.
