Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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19 September 1819: A Reform meeting in favour of universal suffrage,...
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19 September 1819
A Reform meeting in favour of universal suffrage, involving 30,000 men and women, was held at Clayknowes, the east side of Glasgow.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
89 (1819): 267
April 1972: Daffodils in Ice, first of three volumes...
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April 1972
Daffodils in Ice, first of three volumes of poetry by Sister Mary Agnes
, was published with a foreword by novelist Elizabeth Goudge
.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1973
1820: Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind...
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1820
Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown
, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University
, appeared in four volumes in the year of his death.
Harris, James A. “First feeling”. Times Literary Supplement, 5 Mar. 2004, p. 32.
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1849: Robert Stephenson built a cast-iron High...
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1849
Robert Stephenson
built a cast-iron High Level Bridge over the Tyne River at Newcastle.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
271
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.
179
Singer, Charles et al., editors. A History of Technology. Clarendon, 1958, 8 vols.
4: 461
6 February 1953: Singer Kathleen Ferrier collapsed during...
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6 February 1953
Singer Kathleen Ferrier
collapsed during Gluck
's opera Orfeo at Covent Garden
; she never sang again, but died of cancer later this year.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
141
Stevenson, John, 1946 -. British Society, 1914-45. Penguin, 1984.
409
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Writer or writing
Author profile
Sarah Stickney Ellis
The prolific SSE
, author of thirty-four books, was the most popular writer of Victorian conduct literature. Her four advice books addressed women in the burgeoning middle class; she also wrote novels, poems, and didactic...
Shakespeare
probably completed the story of his two Henry IV history plays by writing Henry V, in which the charismatic but formerly undisciplined prince makes good as national military hero.
Dobson, Michael. “A Furtive Night’s Work”. London Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2005, pp. 7-8.
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15 September 1910: The controversy about the employment of women...
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15 September 1910
The controversy about the employment of women as compositors created by the November 1909 statement from the Edinburgh Typographical Society
was resolved at a mass meeting in Edinburgh.
Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
85
Cockburn, Cynthia. Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change. 2nd ed., Pluto Press, 1991.
158
10 April 1925: US author F. Scott Fitzgerald published his...
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10 April 1925
US author F. Scott Fitzgerald
published his novel The Great Gatsby, which probes the consequences of success in the competitive pursuit of the great American dream. Zelda Fitzgerald
came up with the title for...
1863: Parliament approved the purchase of twelve...
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1863
Parliament approved the purchase of twelve acres of land at South Kensington (formerly part of the Exhibition site) as the site of the Natural History Museum
.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
410
About 9 February 1682: Thomas Otway's she-tragedy Venice Preserved...
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About 9 February 1682
Thomas Otway
's she-tragedyVenice Preserved had its first performance.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1.1: 306
By 14 June 1884: Walter Besant published Dorothy Forster,...
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By 14 June 1884
Walter Besant
published Dorothy Forster, a historical romance, narrated by the title character.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2955 (1884): 756
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Author profile
Nan Shepherd
NS
, a Scotswoman, published between 1928 and 1934 three novels and a volume of poems. A volume of nature-writing or memoir about her relationship with the Cairngorm mountains proved unacceptable during the 1940s, and...
26 April 1828-September 1829: The Russo-Turkish War (first of several conflicts...
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26 April 1828-September 1829
The Russo-Turkish War (first of several conflicts to bear this name) took place, following on the Greek War of Independence.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
45
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Gildea, Robert. Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914. Oxford University Press, 1987.
68
29 March 2014: Same-sex marriage became legal in Britain....
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29 March 2014
Same-sex marriage became legal in Britain. The following month two women became the first English gay couple to marry in a church: at Bournemouth in Dorset.
“News in brief”. Guardian Weekly, 18 Apr. 2014, p. 17.
22 November 1976: The Sexual Offences Amendment Act attempted...
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22 November 1976
The Sexual Offences Amendment Act attempted to make it less daunting for victims to report rape and give evidence, by granting anonymity to women reporting rape and restricting questioning into their sexual past during the...
22 May 1936: The Peace Pledge Union was founded by Canon...
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
354
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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March 1973: Official US troop withdrawals from Vietnam...
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March 1973
Official US troop withdrawals from Vietnam followed on the signing of a cease-fire on 23 January.
Kettle, Martin. “Nixon ’wrecked early peace in Vietnam’”. The Guardian, 9 Aug. 2000, p. 3.
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Sayle, Murray. “Why the bastards wouldn’t stand and fight”. London Review of Books, 21 Feb. 2002, pp. 3-11.
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Bacevich, Andrew. “Small nations, take heed”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2013, pp. 20-1.
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15 November 1739: The first number appeared of The Champion,...
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15 November 1739
The first number appeared of The Champion, an Opposition periodical by Henry Fielding
and James Ralph
.
Graham, Walter. English Literary Periodicals. Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1930.
156
1934: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) passed...
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1934
The Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) passed a resolution calling for the legalisation of abortion, becoming the first woman's organisation to pass such a resolution.
Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
137
Graves, Pamela M. Labour Women: Women in British Working-Class Politics, 1918-1939. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
198
1 October-31 December 1909: Conductor Thomas Beecham established the...
Ford, Boris, editor. The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain. Vol. 9 vols, Cambridge University Press, 1988–2026.
8: 339
1950: The Carl Hahn company began selling the o.b....
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1950
The Carl Hahn
company began selling the o.b. tampon®, a small cotton-rayon applicator-free design developed by German physician Judith Esser-Mittag
.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
145
2003: MySpace is launched in Santa Monica, California,...
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2003
MySpace
is launched in Santa Monica, California, competing with social networking sites like Friendster
. In 2005 MySpace was sold to Rupert Murdoch
's News Corporation
for 580 million dollars.
Boyd, Danah, and Nicole B. Ellison. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History,and Scholarship”. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol.
13
, No. 1, International Communication Association, 2008, pp. 210-3.
1669: G. J. Guilleragues published, anonymously,...
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1669
G. J. Guilleragues
published, anonymously, Lettres portugaises (sometimes called Letters of a Portuguese Nun).
Day, Robert Adams. Told in Letters: Epistolary Fiction Before Richardson. University of Michigan Press, 1966, http://U of A HS.
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Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
