Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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21 July 1542: Pope Paul III revived the medieval inquisition...
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
1698: On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin...
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1698
On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin
from a slow consumption, his widow, Abigail
, took over the business in name; she had in fact been running it for several years.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
170: 5, 8-10
Feminist Companion Archive.
1920: The Women's Trade Union League merged with...
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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30 January 1961: The National Health Service announced that...
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30 January 1961
The National Health Service announced that the early contraceptive pill Enovid would become available in Britain in December this year. The birth-control pill had to be bought, but was subsidized to keep its cost to...
1844-1890: Public asylums became a refuge for pauper...
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1844-1890
Public asylums became a refuge for pauper lunatics, until this group comprised approximately 91%of all patients in mental institutions; over a forty-five year span, the number of pauper lunatics increased four hundred times.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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10 December 1904: Two British scientists won Nobel Prizes:...
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10 December 1904
Two British scientists won Nobel
Prizes: Sir William Ramsay
in Chemistry for his discovery of inert gaseous elements in air, and John William Strutt
in Physics for investigating the densities of argon and other gases.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
By 2 January 1858: Matthew Arnold's Merope: a Tragedy was p...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
14 February 1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran declared...
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14 February 1989
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
of Iran declared a fatwa or death sentence against Salman Rushdie
on account of the allegedly blasphemous treatment of the prophet Mohammed in his novel The Satanic Verses.
“1990: Iranian leader upholds Rushdie fatwa”. BBC News: On This Day, 26 Dec. 1990.
18-22 October 1910: Dr Hawley Crippen, an American resident of...
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18-22 October 1910
Dr Hawley Crippen
, an American resident of London, was found guilty of the murder of his wife, a music-hall actress known as Cora Turner
. He was tracked down in the USA where...
1911: The Social Democratic Federation merged with...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Hicks, Hyndman
5 April 1843: John Ruskin, as a Graduate of Oxford, published...
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5 April 1843
John Ruskin
, as a Graduate of Oxford, published the first volume of Modern Painters.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
12 April 1861-9 April 1865: The American Civil War raged between the...
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12 April 1861-9 April 1865
The American Civil War raged between the Confederacy of southern slave-owning states and the Union of the rest: from the first shots fired by Confederate artillery at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, to the surrender...
January 1661: Fifth Monarchists (who expected the Second...
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January 1661
Fifth Monarchists
(who expected the Second Coming and political rule of Christ, and had opposed the Cromwell
ian government too) staged an uprising against the new king, Charles II
.
Page, F. C. G. Following the Drum: Women in Wellington’s Wars. Deutsch, 1986.
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Agnes Beaumont
AB
left a single text, an autobiographical account of her struggles with her father over her right to choose her own religious sect and of the accusations levelled against her after his sudden death, because...
1848: Corset stays were first made with elastic...
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1848
Corset stays were first made with elastic thread woven into fabric (instead of whalebone); this new design aided breathing and mobility.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
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31 July 1831: The first issue of the Poor Man's Guardian...
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31 July 1831
The first issue of the Poor Man's Guardian was published by Henry Hetherington
.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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26 August 1936: The Anglo-Egyptian treaty ended British military...
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26 August 1936
The Anglo-Egyptian treaty ended British military occupation of Egypt (except in the Suez Canal zone) and produced a twenty-year alliance between Britain and Egypt.
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
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Damaris Masham
DM
, philosophical controversialist of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, was also a memorable writer of familiar letters and witty poetry (both pastoral and satire).
By 23 July 1853: John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice,...
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By 23 July 1853
John Ruskin
published The Stones of Venice, Volume the Second—The Sea Stories.
