Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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20 August 1867: The Metropolitan Streets Act was passed....
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20 August 1867
The Metropolitan Streets Act was passed. Among its aims were the regulation of public advertising and the control of rabies in London.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Kaplan, Colin. Rabies: The Facts. Oxford University Press, 1977.
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1840: Germany as the centre of studies in chemistry...
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1840
Germany as the centre of studies in chemistry because a PhD in chemistry was not available in the UK.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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By 1916: Popular women's magazines hired nutritionists...
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By 1916
Popular women's magazines hired nutritionists to write columns about calories, properdiets, and ideal weights.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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October 1884: The University College of North Wales opened...
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
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Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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By May 1968: James D. Watson published The Double Helix,...
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By May 1968
James D. Watson
published The Double Helix, an account of the discovery of the structure of DNA, the basis of human genetic material; he dedicated it to Naomi Mitchison
.
Smith, John Maynard. Did Darwin Get It Right? Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution. Penguin, 1993.
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1 March 1932: The twenty-month-old son of US aviator Charles...
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1 March 1932
The twenty-month-old son of US aviator Charles A. Lindbergh
(famous for making the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight on 20-21 May 1927) was kidnapped.
“Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Kidnapping, March 1, 1932”. Charles Lindbergh, An American Aviator: Kidnapping.
September 1830: Alfred Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly...
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September 1830
Alfred Tennyson
published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, his first solo volume publication, containing Mariana.
Wise, Thomas J. A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred Lord Tennyson. Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1967, 2 Vols.
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17 February 1920: Oxford University admitted women as full...
Brittain, Vera. The Women at Oxford. George G. Harrap, 1960.
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Winter, J. M. “Oxford and the First World War”. The History of the University of Oxford Vol. VIII: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 3-26.
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Rupert Brooke
RB
, one of the leading voices in the early twentieth-century Georgian movement in poetry, is remembered primarily as a war poet, although he died before the First World War was a year old.
November 1700: King Carlos II of Spain died; he had no heir,...
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November 1700
King Carlos II of Spain died; he had no heir, and the War of Spanish Succession resulted within eighteen months, declared by England against France on 4 May 1702.
Jones, Dwyryd Wyn. War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough. Blackwell, 1988.
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May 1844: The North British Review began publication...
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May 1844
The North British Review began publication in Edinburgh, appealing to a liberal Christian audience.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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1593: Dona Reyna Nasi, widow of Don Joseph Nasi,...
The formidably productive and versatile DL
, Nobel Prize winner, set her mark on late twentieth-century fiction and remained a force to be reckoned with in the twenty-first. Her major themes—life in colonial Africa, the...
One of the two renowned Ladies of Llangollen, LEB
produced life-writing (diaries, letters, and some poems) during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, which structured, recorded, and celebrated their shared way of life...
9 June 1705 : John Vanbrugh was officially appointed architect,...
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9 June 1705
John Vanbrugh
was officially appointed architect, with the assistance of Nicholas Hawksmoor
, to build Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire as a national thank-offering to the Duke of Marlborough
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Vanbrugh
July 1865: A general election was held in Britain; campaigning...
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July 1865
A general election was held in Britain; campaigning was rendered eventful by distress and unrest in industrial areas, and controversy over the prospect of a new Reform Bill.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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1851-54: Auguste Comte published Système de politique...
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1851-54
Auguste Comte
published Système de politique positive in four volumes; it was translated as The System of Positive Polity from 1875-7.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Londoner Isabella Rushton Preston
published anonymously, through John Murray
, her Handbook of Familiar Quotations from English Authors. This became a leading source for the better-known, American Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1855.
Shapiro, Fred R. “Anonymous was a Woman”. Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan.–Feb. 2011.
1965: The Migraine Trust was set up to fund specialist...
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1965
The Migraine Trust
was set up to fund specialist migraine clinics and research, and to raise awareness.
“About The Migraine Trust”. The Migraine Trust, June 2003.
19 January 1818: John Holland wrote An Elegy on the Death...
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19 January 1818
John Holland
wrote An Elegy on the Death of Esther Caterer
, Librarian of Surry Street Book Rooms in Sheffield, imagining the grief of the bereaved books.
Crawford, Robert. “T. S. Eliot, Poets and Libraries”. The Author, Vol.
29
, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2015, pp. 26-9.
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29 May 1970: The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of...
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29 May 1970
The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of treatment for both sexes in employment contracts.
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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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
2 (1970): 1366-75
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Into the blue”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 10-11, July 2003, p. 32.
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By 8 April 1876: Sir George Otto Trevelyan published The Life...
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1883: William Morris published with Reeves of London...
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1883
William Morris
published with Reeves
of London the first of his Chants for Socialists: No 1. The Day is Coming.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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After 24 August 1572: The St Bartholomew's Eve massacre in France...
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After 24 August 1572
The St Bartholomew's Eve massacre in France brought an influx of skilled Protestant refugees to England.
McIntyre, Ian. Garrick. Penguin, 1999.
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Brewer, E. Cobham. The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Avenel Books, 1978.
10 August 1960: The Canadian Bill of Rights became law; among...
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10 August 1960
The Canadian Bill of Rights became law; among other things it guaranteed women and men equal treatment before the law when they are in an equal situation.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
