Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Eva Gore-Booth
In addition to her intense suffrage and labour activism, EGB
wrote poetry, periodical essays, political pamphlets, religious criticism, plays, and an autobiograpical sketch. Her work was admired by her contemporaries Katharine Tynan
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Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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October 1936: The German Nazi Party barred Jews from the...
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October 1936
The GermanNazi Party
barred Jews from the reading rooms of public libraries.
This information comes from the diaries of Victor Klemperer
, first published in 2000.
Powers, Thomas. “’A Thousand Mosquito Bites’”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 3-7.
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1878: Given the increasing institutionalizing of...
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1878
Given the increasing institutionalizing of philanthropic visiting, the Workhouse Visiting Society
closed its Waterloo Place offices, considering its work to be done.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1973: Penelope Gilliatt published Unholy Fools,...
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1973
Penelope Gilliatt
published Unholy Fools, Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace, a book that explores the role of the comic, especially in film and theatre.
January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...
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January 1802
The Christian Observer was launched, as a journal Conducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism
and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.
Graham, Kenneth W. “Beckford, Godwin, Austen, and the Divisive 1790s”. Persuasions, Vol.
24
, 2002, pp. 33-46.
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Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. 12 Nov. 2010, http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.
April 2005: Béa González, Spanish-born Canadian novelist,...
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April 2005
Béa González
, Spanish-born Canadian novelist, published her second novel, the magic-realist The Mapmaker's Opera, set in late nineteenth-century Spain and Mexico. Her first was The Bitter Taste of Time, 1998.
Canton, Jeffrey. “Reviews. The Mapmaker’s Opera by Béa Gonzalez”. Quill and Quire, Apr. 2005.
“Playwrights. Victor Kazan”. doollee.com.
8 May 1919: The League of the Church Militant, which...
Heeney, Brian. “The Beginnings of Church Feminism: Women and the Councils of the Church of England, 1897-1919”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 260-84.
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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
1 January 1886: The first recorded death from chloroform...
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1 January 1886
The first recorded death from chloroform poisoning, that of Edwin Bartlett
, led to his wife Adelaide Bartlett
's sensational trial for murder.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
175-214
17 October 1986: The Independent began publication in London...
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17 October 1986
The Independent began publication in London as a daily newspaper designed to live up to its name.
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1765: Joseph Priestley published his Chart of Biography,...
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1765
Joseph Priestley
published his Chart of Biography, a diagram measuring two by three feet, showing the overlapping time-spans of the lives of historical figures.
Sheps, Arthur. “Joseph Priestley’s Time Charts: The Use and Teaching of History by Rational Dissent in late Eighteenth-Century England”. Lumen, Vol.
xviii
, 1999, pp. 135-54.
140, 142-3
14 March 1786: An order was established to prevent wards...
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14 March 1786
An order was established to prevent wards of the Upper
and Lower Orphanage
s in India (mixed-race boys) from travelling to Britain for education.
Neff, David Sprague. “Hostages to Empire: The Anglo-Indian Problem in Frankenstein, The Curse of Kehama, and The Missionary”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
8
, No. 4, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1997, pp. 386-08.
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1799: Catherine Rebecca, Lady Manners, published...
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17 June 1938: T. H. White published, as a book for children,...
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17 June 1938
T. H. White
published, as a book for children, The Sword in the Stone, about the childhood of King Arthur (known here as the Wart).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
17 June 2009
1872: University College of Wales, Aberystwyth,...
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
7, 42, 209-10, 217, 228, 244
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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10 December 1973: Australian Patrick White was awarded the...
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10 December 1973
Australian Patrick White
was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The citation said he had introduced a new continent into literature. He was unable for health reasons to travel to Stockholm, and his acceptance...
April 1972: Sappho began monthly publication in London...
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April 1972
Sappho began monthly publication in London as one of the few magazines written for and about lesbians.
Noyce, John. The Directory of British Alternative Periodicals 1965-1974. Harvester Press, 1979.
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3 May 1606: An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made...
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3 May 1606
An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made a powerful bid to prevent swearing on stage.
Dobson, Michael. “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 3-8.
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21 August 2006: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, not yet in her...
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21 August 2006
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
, not yet in her thirties, had her first big success with her novel Half of a Yellow Sun, set during the civil war in Nigeria which lasted from 1967 to 1970.
January 1823: Charles Lamb published the first volume of...
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January 1823
Charles Lamb
published the first volume of his Essays of Elia, which had been appearing regularly since August 1820 in the London Magazine.
Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, J. M. Dent, 1935, 3 vols.
2: 560
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
317, 330-1
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Bryony Lavery
In a career spanning nearly forty years of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, the highly prolific BL
has seen over sixty of her plays and other entertainments staged, mostly in London. She has...
1678: An anonymous woman, who had charge of her...
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1678
An anonymous woman, who had charge of her own family's finances by invitation of her father, urged in Advice to the Women and Maidens of London that girls should be taught the useful skill of...
