Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Emma Jane Worboise
EJW
was a prolific Victorian novelist who wrote didactic and often sensational tales on domestic, courtship, evangelical, ecumenical (within Protestantism), and anti-Catholic themes. Apart from her nearly fifty novels, she published a book of hymns...
1902: James Malcolm Eveleigh Nash founded the Eveleigh...
Beginning a few years before the First World War (in which she was a pacifist), GHS
published about thirty novels, mostly as Henrietta Leslie. Her typical writing is naturalistic fiction with a strong sense...
1861-1891: The number of hospital beds available throughout...
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1861-1891
The number of hospital beds available throughout England and Wales increased by an average of 1,600 beds per year.
18 June 1870: The Scottish Society of Reparation (Community...
By March 1955: The same year she married Sol Cornberg, Catherine...
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By March 1955
The same year she married Sol Cornberg
, Catherine Gaskin
published Sara Dane, her amazingly successfulnovel based on the life of transported horse-thief Mary Reibey
.
2 February 1714: Nicholas Rowe's Tragedy of Jane Shore was...
1880: The Platinotype Company produced platinum-based...
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1880
The Platinotype Company
produced platinum-based photographic paper for commercial sale; this offered greater permanence and tonal range than earlier silver-based papers.
July 1832: A monthly periodical for women entitled The...
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July 1832
A monthly periodical for women entitled The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée swallowed up La Belle Assemblée and began publishing under this title in London.
12 July 1691: At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway,...
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12 July 1691
At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway, William III
's forces in Ireland (having just taken the town of Athlone with fearful destruction) won a decisive victory over those of James II
...
1882: By this date, the Salvation Army was comprised...
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1882
By this date, the Salvation Army
was comprised of 15,000 volunteers, organized by nearly 750 paid officers at 521 stations.
8 October 1970: Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel...
10 October 1967: The Bolivian military executed the Argentinian-born...
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10 October 1967
The Bolivian military executed the Argentinian-born revolutionary Che (Ernesto) Guevara
, whose declared military aim was a pan-South-American socialist bloc.
4 January 1948: The Union of Burma (where seven months previously...
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4 January 1948
The Union of Burma (where seven months previously the members of a prospective coalition cabinet had been assassinated) was declared an independent republic.
1977: Penelope Leach's Baby and Child, a classic...
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1977
Penelope Leach
's Baby and Child, a classic childcare manual with photographic illustrations by Camilla Jessel
, broke new ground in simple instructional books.
28 October 1871: Henry Stanley of the New York Herald had...
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28 October 1871
Henry Stanley
of the New York Herald had his famous encounter with explorer David Livingstone
at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika.
14 May-28 October 1900: Women were first admitted to the Olympic...
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14 May-28 October 1900
Women were first admitted to the Olympic Games
, held this year in Paris.
1907: Romain Rolland published Vies des hommmes...
1937: Eve Garnett published The Family from One-End...
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1937
Eve Garnett
published The Family from One-End Street, which was remarkable as probably the first British story for children to centre on an ordinary, realistically depicted working-class family.
1834: The Theatre Royal, English Opera House became...
