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By 22 July 1797: William Beckford published a second and more...

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By 22 July 1797

William Beckford published a second and more marked burlesque attack on women's writing: Azemia: A Descriptive and Sentimental Novel. Interspersed with Pieces of Poetry.
Beckford, William. Azemia. Sampson Low, 1797, 2 vols.
1: 21; 2: 43, 61, 236ff
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 20 (1797): 470

16 July 1929: The Irish Censorship of Publications Act...

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16 July 1929

The Irish Censorship of Publications Act restricted publication of matter deemed indecent that was judged injurious to public morals.
Acts of the Oireachtas. Stationery Office, 1938–2026.
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Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
615
Shatter, Alan Joseph. Family Law in the Republic of Ireland. 2nd ed., Wolfhound Press, 1981.
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11 January 1931: The Sunday Times newspaper began publica...

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11 January 1931

The Sunday Times newspaper began publication.
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15 October 1881: The Royal Comedy Theatre was opened....

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15 October 1881

The Royal Comedy Theatre was opened.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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3 November 1703: John Tipper, a schoolmaster of Coventry,...

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3 November 1703

John Tipper , a schoolmaster of Coventry, wrote to Humfrey Wanley about his projected Ladies' Diary, or The Woman's Almanack.
Adburgham, Alison. Women in Print: Writing Women and Women’s Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria. George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1972.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Ellis, Sir Henry, editor. Original Letters of Eminent Literary Men of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Camden Society, 1843.
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Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow, 2007.
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Just before 23 April 1718: A man paid ten shillings to three prostitutes...

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Just before 23 April 1718

A man paid ten shillings to three prostitutes in St Giles in the Fields parish to flog him. The man later summoned one of the prostitutes to court for robbing him of two guineas, but...

1968: Mary Daly, an academic at the Jesuit-run...

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1968

Mary Daly , an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College , published the first of her works in feminist theology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic and, more broadly,...

29 January 1942: The American Government began forcibly removing...

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29 January 1942

The American Government began forcibly removing its Japanese citizens into relocation camps.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.

1745: The Rotunda or Lying-In Hospital, Dublin,...

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1745

The Rotunda or Lying-In Hospital , Dublin, was opened by Bartholomew Mosse in South Great George's Street. In 1748 it moved to its permanent home, the Dublin Rotunda designed by Richard Cassels .
“Architect Richard Cassells: Rotunda Hospital”. Archiseek (Architectural Association of Ireland): Buildings of Ireland: Dublin: North City Centre: Parnell Square.

1 April 1947: Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for...

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1 April 1947

Mahatma Gandhi suggested, remarkably for a devout Hindu , that the first Prime Minister of an independent (and united) India should be the MuslimMuhammad Ali Jinnah (who after Partition became first premier of Pakistan).
Vedantam, Shankar. “Lost recording of Gandhi uncovered”. Guardian Weekly, 15 Aug. 2008, p. 30.
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By February 1996: A London edition appeared of John Boswell's...

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By February 1996

A London edition appeared of John Boswell 's The Marriage of Likeness: Same-Sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe (published in the USA two years earlier).
Davidson, James. “Mr and Mr and Mrs and Mrs”. London Review of Books, 2 June 2005, pp. 13-18.
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1841: In the British Census, 278 women classified...

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1841

In the British Census, 278 women classified themselves as professional artists.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
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Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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10 December 1951: Sir John Douglas Cockcroft from Great Britain...

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10 December 1951

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft from Great Britain and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton of Ireland were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in the artifical acceleration of atomic particles.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

1801: The Monthly Magazine estimated the number...

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1801

The Monthly Magazine estimated the number of circulating libraries in Britain as a thousand or more. Twenty years later it reckoned that that number was up by a half.
McLeod, Deborah. The Minerva Press. University of Alberta, 1997.
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July 1850: William Allingham published Poems....

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July 1850

William Allingham published Poems.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

21 September 1777: Five British regiments launched a surprise...

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21 September 1777

Five British regiments launched a surprise attack near the Paoli Tavern, Pennsylvania, which became known as the Paoli Massacre.
The tavern was apparently named for the leader of another independence struggle: Pasquale Paoli of Corsica.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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26 August 1346: The battle of Crécy, an English victory over...

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26 August 1346

The battle of Crécy, an English victory over France, not only demonstrated the superior technology of the longbow, but also arguably proved that the armed knight on horseback was obsolete.
Taylor, Paul Beekman. “The Uncourteous Knights of The Canterbury TalesEnglish Studies, Vol.
72
, No. 3, June 1991, pp. 209-18.
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Mary Jones

MJ , writing in the mid and later eighteenth century, is remarkable for publishing her work, although it was written in a private context. She is still under-rated both as a poet and as a letter-writer.
Mary Jones Title-page of Mary Jones's "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse", published with her name at Oxford, 1750.

October 1667: John Milton published his epic poem Paradise...

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October 1667

John Milton published his epic poem Paradise Lost, which he had begun dictating before the Restoration and entered in the Stationers' Register in August.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
20 August 2009

1878: Bulgaria gained a measure of independence...

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1878

Bulgaria gained a measure of independence from Turkey.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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1906: Charlotte O'Conor Eccles published her last...

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1906

Charlotte O'Conor Eccles published her last novel, The Matrimonial Lottery.
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8 November 1940: A memorandum by William Beveridge of the...

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8 November 1940

A memorandum by William Beveridge of the Man Power Requirements Committee projected a need for two million additional men and women in the labour force.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
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Harris, José. William Beveridge: A Biography. Clarendon, 1977.
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Harris says the call was for this number...

1855: John Camden Hotten, newly back from some...

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1855

John Camden Hotten , newly back from some seven years in America, established his own bookshop at 151b Piccadilly, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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1968: At the end of Edmund Blunden's tenure of...

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1968

At the end of Edmund Blunden 's tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford , Roy Fuller was elected to follow him.
Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, 8 July 2003, p. 25.
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4 November 1734: The London Daily Post and General Advertiser...

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4 November 1734

The London Daily Post and General Advertiser was launched: one of four newspapers (only two dailies) which dominated publishers' book advertising until nearly the century's end.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
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