Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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The Irish-language poet who calls herself Biddy Jenkinson
set out her poetic credo in an extended letter to the editor of the Irish University Review.
Mulvihill, Maureen E. “Biddy Jenkinson (1949—)”. Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide, edited by Alexander G. Gonzalez, Greenwood Press, 2006, pp. 154-7.
154-7
January 1979: The Feminist Review, an academic and theoretical...
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January 1979
The Feminist Review, an academic and theoretical journal, began publication in London.
1907: Oxford University Press sold its last copy...
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1907
Oxford University Press
sold its last copy of Wilkins
' Coptic New Testament, printed in 1716 and believed to have been on sale continuously at its original price.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
128
6 April 1955: Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and...
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491, 408
1889: The first public electricity supply was inaugurated...
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1889
The first public electricity supply was inaugurated in London.
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
prelims
2 July 1868: An extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts...
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2 July 1868
An extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts to eleven more jurisdictions was recommended by a House of Lords
committee.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
114
20 September 1917: The Military Voters Act allowed women who...
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20 September 1917
The Military Voters Act allowed women who were British subjects, and who had close relatives in the armed forces, to vote in national elections on behalf of their male relatives.
“Women’s Right to Vote in Canada”. Paarliament of Canada: A to Z Index: Women, 1 Feb. 1999.
1868: Frederick Startridge Ellis began his publishing...
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1868
Frederick Startridge Ellis
began his publishing career by issuing (in a single volume) parts one and two of William Morris
's poem or series of poems The Earthly Paradise.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 131
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
304, 671
6 November 1884: The UK proclaimed a protectorate over south...
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6 November 1884
The UK proclaimed a protectorate over south east New Guinea.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 953
1900: Onora, a novel by Rosa Mulholland, was published;...
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1900
Onora, a novel by Rosa Mulholland
, was published; it was re-issued fifteen years later as Norah of Waterford.
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.
21 May 1873: William Fowler's bill for the repeal of the...
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21 May 1873
William Fowler
's bill for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was defeated in parliament by a vote of 251 to 128.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
121
1963: The University of East Anglia was founded...
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
155
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
506
By October 1928: Stephen Spender, as an Oxford undergraduate,...
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By October 1928
Stephen Spender
, as an Oxford undergraduate, self-published a booklet of poems entitled Nine Experiments.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
5 March 1976: The pound sterling first fell below two US...
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5 March 1976
The pound sterling first fell below two US dollars in value.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
412
January 1835: A prospectus announced the imminent merging...
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January 1835
A prospectus announced the imminent merging of the Westminster Review with the newly created London Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 535-6
10 August 1911: The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords,...
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10 August 1911
The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords
, bringing about some curtailment in that body's powers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Asquith
June 1853: The Act for the Better Prevention of Aggravated...
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June 1853
The Act for the Better Prevention of Aggravated Assault Upon Women and Children made wife assault punishable by up to six months imprisonment or a £20 fine.
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
159
Cobbe, Frances Power. “Wife-Torture in England”. Contemporary Review, Vol.
32
, 1878, pp. 55-87.
76-7
1 January 1910: The Trades Board Act came into effect, establishing...
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1 January 1910
The Trades Board Act came into effect, establishing a legal minimum wage in four industries all employing women in their homes.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1909): 101
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.
152
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
777
1691: Robert Gould published A Satyrical Epistle...
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1691
Robert Gould
published A Satyrical Epistle to the Female Author of a Poem, call'd Silvia's Revenge, an antifeminist contribution to the Sylvia debate.
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.
5 January 1699: Actress Elizabeth Barry wrote that she never...
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5 January 1699
Actress Elizabeth Barry
wrote that she never knew a worse Winter in the theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 507
1790: The explorer James Bruce published his five-volume...
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1790
The explorer James Bruce
published his five-volume classic, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, which in fact was written from hazy, unsupported memory twenty years after his travels in Ethiopia.
Pankhurst, Richard Keir Pethick. “Raider of the Lost Ark”. London Review of Books, 24 May 2001, pp. 36-7.
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Philip Larkin
PL
is now widely regarded as one of the leading English poets of the later twentieth century. His output was small and his chosen form is brief, tightly structured, rhyming and self-contained, using a demotic...
