Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1851: The Royal College of Surgeons set up the...
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1851
The Royal College of Surgeons
set up the first male midwifery course in London and excluded female midwives.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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After 18 March 1954: English-educated, American historical or...
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After 18 March 1954
English-educated, American historical or biographical novelist Anya Seton
issued her best-known work, Katherine, about the commoner from whom descends every English monarch since Henry VII
.
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.
1986: An amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act...
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1986
An amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act equalized the retirement age (though not the age for receipt of the state pension) between the sexes, and allowed women to work night shifts.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
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Author profile
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
KKD
(poet, novelist, playwright, translator, scholar, and critic of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries) grew up and was educated in Calcutta, but has lived in or near Oxford for most of her adult life...
31 March 1832: William Tait published the first issue of...
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31 March 1832
William Tait
published the first issue of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 475-6
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 475-7
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Eva Figes
EF
, a seriously experimental novelist, also published short stories, children's books, literary criticism, social commentary, and translations, especially of French and German fiction.
Fitzgerald, Penelope. Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. Collins, 1984, p. 240 pp.
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Grant, Joy. Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
60, 81-3
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Louise Page
LP
is a contemporary feminist playwright who has also made her mark in radio and television drama. Her first play to attract notice, Tissue, tackled the subject of breast cancer, and she has often...
July 2003: Chawton House in the village of Chawton in...
Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
156, 160
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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Henrietta Rouviere Mosse
HRM
published about ten novels and a volume of short fiction with the Minerva Press
and its successor during the early nineteenth century; writing at first for pleasure, then out of increasingly desperate financial need...
25 June 1886: The Crofters' Holdings Act gave improved...
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25 June 1886
The Crofters' Holdings Act gave improved rights to Scottish tenants in the wake of years of civil disobedience (the Crofters' War), particularly on the Isle of Skye.
Collins Dictionary of British History. Collins, 2002.
under Highland Clearances
Circa 1973: Mosside Press (also called Moss Side), which...
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Circa 1973
Mosside Press
(also called Moss Side), which had been founded in Manchester in the late 1960s by the Student Christian Movement
, became a woman-run press after all the men left.
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
58, 64-5
2 August 1270: Louis IX of France (also called St Louis)...
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2 August 1270
Louis IX
of France (also called St Louis) died at Carthage on the final crusade (the second of his reign).
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1786: A committee was formed to provide relief...
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1786
A committee was formed to provide relief for London's black poor: 400 were helped in the first few months.
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
108
By 14 October 1971: Mary Whitehouse, general secretary of the...
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
30 January 1855: Public outrage against Lord Raglan, who commanded...
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30 January 1855
Public outrage against Lord Raglan
, who commanded Britain's forces in the Crimean War, culminated in a Parliament
ary inquiry that brought down Lord Aberdeen
's government and enabled various reforms.
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Somerset, FitzRoy James Henry
18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...
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18 February 1793
A Catholic
Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard
or her husband
wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...
