Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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12 July 1839: Thomas Attwood and John Fielden proposed...
29 October 1919: The New Zealand legislative council bill...
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29 October 1919
The New Zealand legislative council bill made women eligible to sit in Parliament.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Author profile
Charlotte Yonge
CY
was a staggeringly prolific author. Her more than two hundred works include domestic and historical novels for both adults and children, biographies, history and language textbooks, religious manuals, and a fragment of autobiography. She...
1926: Peter Davies established his own publishing...
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1926
Peter Davies
established his own publishing business at 30 Henrietta Street, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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June 1965: The poet Michael Horovitz successfully brought...
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June 1965
The poet Michael Horovitz
successfully brought poetry to a mass audience at the Albert Hall in London for a poetry festival evening of reading by Underground poets, jazz poets, Liverpool poets, and protest poets.
Drabble, Margaret. “Pressure to Perform”. The Author, Vol.
cxii
, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2001–28 Feb. 2002, pp. 162-4.
163
By August 1833: Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published...
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By August 1833
Agnes Bulmer
née Collinson (1775-1836) published her Methodist
epic poem Messiah's Kingdom, in nearly 14,000 lines of rhymed couplets.
Winckles, Andrew O. “The Book of Nature and the Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer’s Analogic Poetics and the End(s) of Romanticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 2, May 2015, pp. 209-28.
219, 210
By 4 April 1903: Victoria, Lady Welby, published her most...
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By 4 April 1903
Victoria, Lady Welby
, published her most philosophically important work, What is Meaning? Studies in the Development of Significance.
Myers, William Andrew. “Victoria, Lady Welby 1837-1912”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-Today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 1-24.
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Warnock, Mary, Baroness, editor. Women Philosophers. J. M. Dent, 1996.
13 July 1942: French, Jewish, stateless, Russian-born novelist...
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13 July 1942
French, Jewish, stateless, Russian-born novelist Irène Némirovsky
was seized and taken to the concentration camp at Pithiviers in the Loiret département of France, en route for Auschwitz
in Poland.
Némirovsky, Irène. Suite Française. Translator Smith, Sandra, Vintage Books, 2007.
374, 386
By 13 August 1864: Alfred Tennyson published the narrative poem...
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Levi, Peter. Tennyson. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.
251, 257
22-24 July 1933: Newlywed pilots Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison...
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22-24 July 1933
Newlywed pilots Amy Johnson
and Jim Mollison
made the first direct flight from Britain to the United States.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
221
3 February 1966: At its fifth attempt, the USSR achieved the...
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3 February 1966
At its fifth attempt, the USSR achieved the first-ever landing on the moon, of an unmanned space-craft, the Luna 9. It was equipped with cameras to take the first close-ups of the moon's surface.
Tucker, Anthony. “4 February 1966. Moon landing for Russian probe”. Guardian Weekly, 4 Feb. 2011, p. 22.
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1968: Maggie Ross, the pseudonym of Maurine Jewel...
April 1757: Six weeks after his marriage, Edmund Burke...
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April 1757
Six weeks after his marriage, Edmund Burke
published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (1757): 361-74
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
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St Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
582
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth
and Coleridge
. In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly...
1926: R. H. Tawney's Religion and the Rise of Capitalism...
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1926
R. H. Tawney
's Religion and the Rise of Capitalism was published.
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
316-17
September 1966: Martha Gellhorn published in The Guardian...
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September 1966
Martha Gellhorn
published in The Guardian (formerly the Manchester Guardian) six articles about the civilian angle in the Vietnam War: at that time something no one had thought to cover.
Fox, Lorna Scott. “No Intention of Retreating”. London Review of Books, 2 Sept. 2004, pp. 26-8.
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Gellhorn, Martha. The Face of War. Virago, 1986.
prelims, 216n
18 May 1910: At a meeting of the Scottish Typographical...
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18 May 1910
At a meeting of the Scottish Typographical Association
in Edinburgh it was announced that employers would hire no more women in composing departments.
Cockburn, Cynthia. Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change. Pluto Press, 1983.
158
1 February 1913: Grand Central Station in New York City o...
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1 February 1913
Grand Central Station in New York City opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
182
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
307
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Naomi Royde-Smith
NRS
'a most important literary work included serving as midwife to the writings of others. She also published prodigiously, from early in the twentieth century: nearly forty novels, besides short stories, anthologies and compilations, biographies...
1823: The Catholic Association was founded in Ireland;...
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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1840: Chartist R. J. Richardson published from...
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1840
Chartist R. J. Richardson
published from prison a pamphlet, The Rights of Woman, in which he argued that women had a share in the Executive and legislative power of the country.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
115-27
1633: Dramatist John Ford published a particularly...
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1633
Dramatist John Ford
published a particularly violent and disturbing tragedy entitled 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
16 August 1851: Harriet Brownlow Byron founded the Anglican...
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.
317, 319
30 May 1962: The newly-built Coventry Cathedral was consecrated,...
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30 May 1962
The newly-built Coventry Cathedral was consecrated, and heard the first performance of Benjamin Britten
's War Requiem, with words from the Latin mass and from poems by Wilfred Owen
.
Anderson, Don. “Program Notes for Lord Benjamin Britten: War Requiem Op. 66”. Signature Magazine: The Official Program of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Vol.
