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21 March 1994: The United Nations Framework Convention on...

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21 March 1994

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into effect, having been ratified by 191 member nations.
“The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”. The United Nations.

Sarah Daniels

SD is a contemporary playwright whose works take on such challenging feminist issues as violence, pornography, and sexual abuse, as they are experienced by lesbians, single mothers, people with disabilities or psychiatric problems, prisoners, prostitutes...

8 December 1868: The radical daily half-penny paper the Echo...

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8 December 1868

The radical daily half-penny paper the Echo first appeared, under the editorship of Arthur Arnold , providing both news and opinion.
Bourne, H. R. Fox. English Newspapers. Russell and Russell, 1966, 2 vols.
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1741: James Parsons published A Mechanical Critical...

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1741

James Parsons published A Mechanical Critical Inquiry into the Nature of Hermaphrodites, which he said was designed to dispell ignorance and superstition and to reinforce truth.
Costa, Palmira Fontes da. “The understanding of monsters at the Royal Society in the first half of the eighteenth century”. Endeavour, Vol.
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, No. 1, Mar. 2000, pp. 34-9.
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1846: The Association for the Establishment of...

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1846

The Association for the Establishment of Baths and Washhouses for the Labouring Poor was established.
Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
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16 May 1840: Frederick Lucas founded a Roman Catholic...

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16 May 1840

Frederick Lucas founded a Roman Catholic journal entitled The Tablet, a vehicle for radical Irish Catholic politics.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1954: Patricia Moyes published Time Remembered,...

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1954

Patricia Moyes published Time Remembered, a translation of Jean Anouilh 's play Leéocadia.
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.

1925: Leonard and Virginia Woolf published Edwin...

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1925

Leonard and Virginia Woolf published Edwin Muir 's First Poems.
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May 1749: Ralph Griffiths began publishing the Monthly...

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May 1749

Ralph Griffiths began publishing the Monthly Review.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
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6 March 1924: The BBC presented the first broadcast poetry...

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6 March 1924

The BBC presented the first broadcast poetry reading, by the poet John Drinkwater .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1963: Malaysian-born author Dulcie Gray published...

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1963

Malaysian-born author Dulcie Gray published Murder in Mind, a mystery and character study of the criminal.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1856: Fredrika Bremer's feminist novel Hertha stressed...

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1856

Fredrika Bremer 's feminist novel Hertha stressed the need for women's independence; it appeared in an English translation by Mary Howitt the same year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The Fredrika Bremer Association. http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20080201023636/http://www.fredrikabremer.se/site/english.

1830: Railways began carrying letters for the Post...

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1830

Railways began carrying letters for the Post Office .
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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Hélène Gingold

HG dabbled in many genres. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she wrote four books of poetry, three novels, two short story collections, two plays, and two volumes of satirical sketches of persons...

27 July 1949: The de Havilland Comet, the first passenger...

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27 July 1949

The de Havilland Comet, the first passenger jet plane (a major British scientific innovation), made its inaugural flight.
Guardian Weekly.
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Anne Thackeray Ritchie

ATR produced, mostly during the later nineteenth century, twenty-one books of fiction, essays, and literary memoirs.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
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Her biographical prefaces to her famous father 's novels are best known, but she was also a major...
Anne Thackeray Ritchie Black and white photograph of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, seated and staring peacefully off into the distance. She is wearing a white dress with puffed shoulders, long sleeves, details of lace, ruffles, and a flower at the neckline, and a pearl button fastening the waistband. She has a stack of pearl necklaces around her neck, her dark hair is pulled into a bun and fastened with a metal pin, and she holds flowers in her hands.

26 August 1920: The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution...

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26 August 1920

The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, allowing female citizens the right to vote in American elections.
“19th Amendment”. History.com.

1986: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished...

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1986

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished the Greater London Council or GLC (then headed by socialist maverick Ken Livingstone ), leaving London as the world's largest city with no central metropolitan authority.
White, Michael et al. “Livingstone win a humiliation for Blair”. Guardian Weekly, 11–17 May 2000, p. 7.
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Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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1954: The Fortnightly Review ceased publication...

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1954

The Fortnightly Review ceased publication after eighty-nine years.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
229

F. Mabel Robinson

FMR published six novels during the 1880s and 1890s that are daring both in subject-matter and handling, broaching such topics as women's status, seduction, and illegitimacy. She also produced a political history of Ireland and...

1922: Helen Hamilton's Mountain Madness relates...

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1922

Helen Hamilton 's Mountain Madness relates her adventures climbing in the French Alps and the Lake District.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1922: The editor of Publisher's Weekly, Frederic...

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1922

The editor of Publisher's Weekly, Frederic G. Melcher , established the Newbery Medal to commemorate John Newbery , the Father of Children's Books.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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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.
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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1874: Physician Henry Maudsley published Responsibility...

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1874

Physician Henry Maudsley published Responsibility in Mental Disease, which discussed eugenic control and the law in relation to mental disease.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

RPJ has been successful in two careers: as a novelist (a dozen titles) and short-story writer (eight collections), and as an author of film scripts (twenty-three), many of them adaptations from published fiction.
Watts, Janet. “Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Obituary”. The Guardian, 3 Apr. 2013.
The two...
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Colour photo of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala at the home of her frequent collaborator, director James Ivory, in Claverack, New York, September 1981. She is wearring a tweed blazer and has her hands in her pockets. She is standing in a park in fall, and the sky is blue with many clouds. The are birch trees in the background are bare.

January 1984: Virago Press released Aileen La Tourette's...

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January 1984

Virago Press released Aileen La Tourette 's fictional exploration of bisexuality, Nuns and Mothers.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.