Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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26 March 1902: Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing...
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26 March 1902
Cecil Rhodes
died, leaving a trust producing nearly £52,000 per annum to fund fifty-two (at first) graduate scholarships each year to Oxford
. They were not, under the terms of his will, open to women...
26 July 1889: The Indecent Advertisements Act was pass...
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26 July 1889
The Indecent Advertisements Act was passed.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
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1839-1840: A treasury-appointed committee chose Holyhead...
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1839-1840
A treasury-appointed committee chose Holyhead in Wales as the railway terminus port for connections to Ireland.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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24 May 1990: Through Peterloo Poets, Anna Adams published...
July 1949: In South Africa the recently-passed Mixed...
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July 1949
In South Africa the recently-passed Mixed Marriages Act (which made marriage between persons of different racial groups illegal) was first enforced to prevent a Canadian sailor from marrying a woman judged to be non-European.
Rossouw, Henk. “Lingering taboo of mixed-race love”. Guardian Weekly, 4 Sept. 2002, p. 25.
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1864: Telegrams came into use for advertising....
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1864
Telegrams came into use for advertising.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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1880: Bradbury and Evans's periodical Once a Week...
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1880
Bradbury
and Evans
's periodical Once a Week ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
79, 479-80
27 October 1931: Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected...
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27 October 1931
Irene Ward
(later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives
to the British Parliament
, where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
363-4
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1685: The parish of St James's in Westminster was...
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1685
The parish of St James's in Westminster was created by partitioning St Martin in the Fields: an early example of the westward spread of desirable residential London districts.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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Elizabeth Beverley
EB
's works, all opportunistic money-raisers, are pamphlets of many different kinds, dating from the early nineteenth century. Their production was closely connected with her career as a stage performer. Some are in verse, while...
28 February 1922: The UK recognized Egypt (formerly a British...
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28 February 1922
The UK recognized Egypt (formerly a British protectorate) as an independent sovereign state.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 637
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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7 October 1850: Nicholas Wiseman became the first British...
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7 October 1850
Nicholas Wiseman
became the first British Cardinal and the first Westminster Metropolitan (i.e. spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Britain) since the Reformation, following the restoration of the Catholic hierachy there.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
101, 103, 106, 110
May 1832: Brothers William and Robert Chambers founded...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 83, 85
21 March 1737: Henry Fielding's last play, The Historical...
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21 March 1737
Henry Fielding
's last play, The Historical Register for the Year 1736, was first performed.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3.2: 651
From spring 1926: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) began...
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From spring 1926
The Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) began raising money and collecting clothes in aid of the wives and children of striking miners.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
191
5 May 1826: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the...
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5 May 1826
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway
, the first modern railway system operated entirely by steam locomotives, was incorporated.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
81
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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Meek, James. “Trains in Space”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 23-9.
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June 2018: The US organization VIDA found in its annual...
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June 2018
The US organization VIDA
found in its annual survey of literary reviewing that female writers accounted for less than 40 percent of articles and reviews at more than half of major publications.
Flood, Alison. “Vida survey of gender bias in literary criticism shows ’stubborn imbalance’”. theguardian.com, 19 June 2018.
June 1836: A monthly for women entitled Blackwood's...
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June 1836
A monthly for women entitled Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable World began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1876: The Church of England Temperance Society...
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1876
The Church of England Temperance Society
implemented its Police Court Missions; these missions undertook temperance work in the prisons and with newly released convicts.
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
105
20 August 1938: A journalist in a British newspaper wrote:...
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20 August 1938
A journalist in a British newspaper wrote: The way stateless Jews from Germany are pouring into this country is becoming an outrage.
“The Refugee Council advertisement”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, p. 13.
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1980: About 300,000 students were attending 44...
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1980
About 300,000 students were attending 44 British universities: numbers had almost trebled in twenty years, and were to double again with the re-classification of the polytechnics as universities in 1992.
Collini, Stefan. “HiEdBiz”. London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2003, pp. 3-9.
5
1748: Dr John Profily published An Easy and Exact...
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1748
Dr John Profily
published An Easy and Exact Method of Curing the Venereal Disease.
Stewart, Mary Margaret. “’And Blights with Plagues the Marriage Hearse’: Syphilis and Wives”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 103-13.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Sarah Butler
SB
(if she existed) was an obscure Irish writer who died in the early eighteenth century, before the publication of her collections of national history under the guise of fiction or romance. Someone of this...
7 March 1912: The first non-stop flight from Paris to London...
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7 March 1912
The first non-stop flight from Paris to London was made.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
May 1828: The Test and Corporations Act was repealed;...
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May 1828
The Test and Corporations Act was repealed; the act had stipulated that holders of public office be members of the Church of England, excluding dissenters, Catholics, and Jews from these positions.
Machin, George Ian Thom. Politics and the Churches in Great Britain 1832-1868. Clarendon, 1977.
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Evans, Richard J. The Penguin Dictionary of Nineteenth Century History. Editors Belchem, John and Richard Price, Penguin, 1996.
