Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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9 April 1851: Nathaniel Hawthorne published in Boston The...
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9 April 1851
Nathaniel Hawthorne
published in BostonThe House of the Seven Gables, a novel exploring Puritan guilt.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1230: 545-7
Clark, C. E. Frazer. Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Descriptive Bibliography. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978.
167
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
15 January 1930: American pilot Amelia Earhart set the women's...
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15 January 1930
American pilot Amelia Earhart
set the women's world speed record: 171 mph.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
461
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Laurence Sterne
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Elizabeth Daryush
ED
is in the unusual position of being a poet laureate's daughter (a grievous disadvantage for any poet to labour under, as Donald Davie
put it).
Davie, Donald, and Elizabeth Daryush. “Introduction”. Collected Poems, Carcanet New Press, 1976, pp. 13-23.
20
Her career spanned much of the twentieth...
17 November 1750: Westminster Bridge was opened: only the second...
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17 November 1750
Westminster Bridge was opened: only the second bridge over the Thames in London.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
20 (1750): 523
5 December 2005: Not quite forty years after homosexuality...
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5 December 2005
Not quite forty years after homosexuality ceased to be illegal in Britain, the Civil Partnerships Act came into force, offering same-sex couples most of the same benefits (in state recognition, taxation, pensions, etc.) as marriage...
June 1792: The Scottish Society of the Friends of the...
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
313
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
25 October 1917: Sinn Féin, reorganized by Cathal Brugha and...
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25 October 1917
Sinn Féin
, reorganized by Cathal Brugha
and Michael Collins
, adopted a constitution. Based on its principles, Sinn Féin
became a national movement on a platform of Irish national independence and the withdrawal of...
14-30 July 1980: The United Nations sponsored a second global...
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14-30 July 1980
The United Nations
sponsored a second global conference on women, held in Copenhagen.
Baxandall, Rosalyn. “Wide World of Women”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xix
, No. 9, June 2002, pp. 7-8.
8
By 1838: Stagecoaches were doing more business bringing...
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By 1838
Stagecoaches were doing more business bringing passengers to and from railway stations than actually transporting passengers over long distances.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
90
January 1961: A B-52 aircraft flying over North Carolina...
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January 1961
A B-52 aircraft flying over North Carolina exploded in the air carrying hydrogen bombs. The populations of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington were reprieved from death when just one among several safety mechanisms...
1899: Clara Barton, founder of the American Red...
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
404
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
142
1 April 1943: Phyllis Deakin called a meeting in a London...
Women writers item
1 April 1943
Phyllis Deakin
called a meeting in a London pub, attended by sixty-two women journalists, which agreed to set up the Women's Press Club
. (The existing Press Club
refused to admit women.)
“Records of the Women’s Press Club”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
5 April 1838: The Association of Master Printers signed...
Feather, John. Publishing, Piracy and Politics: An Historical Study of Copyright in Britain. Mansell, 1994.
130
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Alicia D'Anvers
ADA
is a remarkably skilled and hard-hitting verse satirist of the late Restoration period, who writes about international politics and about the misogynist, ingrown, self-satisfied culture of the university to whose press her father was...
7 February-10 May 1878: Canada's Temperance Act was passed during...
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7 February-10 May 1878
Canada's Temperance Act was passed during the fifth session of its third Parliament.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
480
March 1599: Queen Elizabeth sent her young favourite...
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March 1599
Queen Elizabeth
sent her young favourite the Earl of Essex
to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant with a large army to crush Tyrone
's Rebellion.
Lee, Sophia. The Recess. Editor Alliston, April, University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
353n37, 355n4, 356n11
1899-1900: Leo Tolstoy serially published his novel...
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1899-1900
Leo Tolstoy
serially published his novel Resurrection.
Simmons, Ernest, and Philip Atkinson. “Introduction to Tolstoy’s Writings: Chapter 11: Resurrection”. Library of Mainly Eighteenth Century Authors: Literary Criticism.
May 1971: Irish feminists crossed the border from Belfast,...
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May 1971
Irish feminists crossed the border from Belfast, Northern Ireland, on the condom train, effecting a mass importation of illegal contraceptives.
Enright, Anne. “Diary”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 6, 21 Mar. 2013, pp. 42-3.
42
26 July 1845: The Great Britain, the first propeller-driven...
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26 July 1845
The Great Britain, the first propeller-driven steam liner to cross the Atlantic, left Liverpool for New York.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
95
Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
85
26 January 1566: William Painter's dedication to The Palace...
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26 January 1566
William Painter
's dedication to The Palace of Pleasure (volume one) makes early use of the word novel in approximately its modern sense: these histories (which by another terme I call Nouelles).
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26.
311
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
January 1790: The Cercle Social, a political social club...
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January 1790
The Cercle Social
, a political social club which included women, was founded in Paris.
Levy, Darline Gay et al., translators. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1975: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. University of Illinois Press, 1979.
62-3
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
54
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
105, 369
23 June 1981: The Family Law (Protection of Spouses and...
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23 June 1981
The Family Law (Protection of Spouses and Children) Act of Ireland was passed. This Act gave increased protections to abused or threatened spouses and children.
Acts of the Oireachtas. Stationery Office, 1938–2026.
21 (1981)
Sawyer, Roger. We Are But Women: Women in Ireland’s History. Routledge, 1993.
