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By April 1774: Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son Philip...

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By April 1774

Lord Chesterfield 's Letters to his Son Philip Stanhope were posthumously published by his daughter-in-law Eugenia ; her omission of all material relating to herself gave rise to the story that he had not known...

1 May 1855: At the wedding of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell...

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1 May 1855

At the wedding of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell in Massachusetts, they protested against the legal restrictions imposed on women after marriage.
Stone Blackwell, Alice. Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Women’s Rights. Little, Brown, and Company, 1971.
Stone, 166-169

1857: Before this date, women artists were represented...

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1857

Before this date, women artists were represented in higher proportion in provincial rather than London galleries.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
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1285: A statute set the penalty for raping a woman...

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1285

A statute set the penalty for raping a woman married maid or other at death, or branding on the hand for those claiming benefit of clergy.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
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Benefit of clergy, designed to protect churchmen...

July 1644: The Parliamentary forces won a victory in...

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July 1644

The Parliamentary forces won a victory in the second battle of Edgehill.
Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992.
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6 June 2013: Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo, in her...

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6 June 2013

Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo , in her early thirties, published a first novel, We Need New Names, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.

1958: An Adoption Act was passed in Britain, which...

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1958

An Adoption Act was passed in Britain, which facilitated the reclaiming of adopted children by a biological parent or parents.
Rogers, Rick. Crowther to Warnock: How fourteen reports tried to change children’s lives. Heinemann Educational Books in association with the International Year of the Child, 1980.
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1623: William Whately's controversial treatise...

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1623

William Whately 's controversial treatise A Bride-Bush; or, A Direction for Married Persons appeared in a corrected second edition.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
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1913: Harvard University Press was founded in Cambridge,...

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1913

Harvard University Press was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1879: Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler,...

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1879

Painter Elizabeth (Thompson), Lady Butler , sister of poet Alice Meynell , fought unsuccessfully to become the first woman elected as a Royal Academy member.
Casteras, Susan P., and Linda H. Peterson. A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors. Yale Center for British Art, 1994.
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McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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Agnes Strickland

AS , writing in the middle nineteenth century, won renown as a historian and biographer, particularly of the British royal family and particularly of its female members. In fact all of these books were co-authored...
Agnes Strickland Photograph of a painting of Agnes Strickland by John Hayes, 1846. She is seated with her elbow resting on a wooden table. She is wearing a black velvet dress that laces at the front, over a cream coloured shirt that is trimmed with ruffles. Her sleeves are trimmed with cream coloured lace and pearls, and she is wearing a matching pearl bracelet. Her dark hair is curly, and partly pulled back. She holds a small paper scroll with early-period writing on it, and perhaps a seal. National Portrait Gallery.

24 August 1871: The Anglican Community of St Mary The Virgin...

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24 August 1871

The Anglican Community of St Mary The Virgin and St Modwenna was formally consecrated in Dundee.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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18 July 1874: The weekly Ladies' Own Journal and Miscellany...

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18 July 1874

The weekly Ladies' Own Journal and Miscellany ceased publication.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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February 1951: The Bow Group was founded as an organisation...

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February 1951

The Bow Group was founded as an organisation of younger members of the Conservative Party , to carry out and publish research on political issues.
British Book News. British Council.
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The Bow Group. http://replay.web.archive.org/20080614014527/http://www.bowgroup.org/content.asp?pageid=8.

1817: Thomas Leybourn published The Mathematical...

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1817

Thomas Leybourn published The Mathematical Questions proposed in the Ladies' Diary, and their original answers, together with some new solutions, from its commencement in the year 1704 to1816.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1517: A printing press was set up at Oxford; Cambridge...

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1517

A printing press was set up at Oxford; Cambridge followed within three years.
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
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29 July 1981: Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer...

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29 July 1981

Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in a famously publicized ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral which was widely billed as fairy-tale.
“The Queen at 80: Timeline”. BBC News.

Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys wrote a number of novels and short stories focusing on her own geographical and emotional alienation, as well as an unfinished autobiography. Her fiction from between the two world ward was largely forgotten...
Jean Rhys Jean Rhys (left, in hat) with Mollie Stoner.

13 June 1842: Queen Victoria first travelled by train,...

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13 June 1842

Queen Victoria first travelled by train, from Slough to Paddington.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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1842: People's College, the first Working Men's...

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1842

People's College , the first Working Men's College in England, opened in Sheffield; it also admitted women.
Purvis, June, editor. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945. Univeristy College London Press, 1995.
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Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
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Late 1931: At Leeds Assizes a High Court judge, Mr Justice...

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Late 1931

At Leeds Assizes a High Court judge, Mr Justice McCardie , expressed the view that the law of abortion should itself be amended.
Hall, Lesley. “Articulating abortion in interwar Britain”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 70, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2012, pp. 13-21.
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30 June 1945: Campaigning in the first post-war general...

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30 June 1945

Campaigning in the first post-war general election, Winston Churchill publicly stated support for the principle of equality for women in industry.
Smith, Harold L. “The Politics of Conservative Reform: The Equal Pay for Equal Work Issue, 1945-1955”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
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Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches 1897-1963. Editor James, Robert Rhodes, Chelsea House in association with R. R. Bowker, 1974, 8 vols.
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February 1960: A Guardian article by Betty Jerman and a...

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February 1960

A Guardian article by Betty Jerman and a response from Maureen Nicol resulted in the birth of a Liberal-minded Housebound Wives' Register which eventually became the National Women's Register.
NWR: National Women’s Register. http://www.nwr.org.uk/.

June 1942: The Jewish diarist Victor Klemperer, in Dresden,...

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June 1942

The Jewish diarist Victor Klemperer , in Dresden, recorded that every day some German gentile would reassure him that the German war effort was crumbling.
Powers, Thomas. “’A Thousand Mosquito Bites’”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 3-7.
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