Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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October 1947: Detective Sergeant Alberta Mary Law was the...
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October 1947
Detective Sergeant Alberta Mary Law
was the first female recipient of the King's Police Medal.
Luck, Joan. The British Policewoman: Her Story. R. Hale, 1979.
195
“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
(October-December 1947): 279
25 June 1741: A new parliament was called for this date...
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25 June 1741
A new parliament was called for this date following elections during which Britain's entry into the War of the Austrian Succession was a leading issue.
Sedgwick, Romney. The House of Commons, 1715-1754. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
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By about 1650: Italic handwriting had become popular in...
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By about 1650
Italic handwriting had become popular in England, especially with women, displacing the more upright roman script. Secretary hand , derived from gothic or blackletter and used in business and legal documents, was becoming old-fashioned.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
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16 June 1670: The Bear Garden in London, re-opened since...
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16 June 1670
The Bear Garden in London, re-opened since the Restoration for bear-baiting, bull-baiting, and fights staged between dogs and cocks, was seen in operation for the first time in twenty years by John Evelyn
.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
540
1970: This year saw the birth of two Women's Liberation...
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1970
This year saw the birth of two Women's Liberation organisations in Britain; the Open Door Council
(pursuing the economic emancipation of the woman worker) and the Six Point Group
.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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20 May 1774: The Massachusetts Regulatory Act or Massachusetts...
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20 May 1774
The Massachusetts Regulatory Act or Massachusetts Government Act received royal assent.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
230
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
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1 July 1890: An anonymous letter-writer told international...
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1 July 1890
An anonymous letter-writer told international labour activist Louise Michel
, I would like to see you tied to a stake and to make you suffer . . . for I find it loathsome to hear...
December 1883: The National League Journal ended publication...
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December 1883
The National League Journal ended publication in Liverpool.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
2 February 1785: The recently imposed window-tax (not the...
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2 February 1785
The recently imposed window-tax (not the first, but the most notorious tax of this kind) provoked the publication of an ironic mock sermon about it.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
59 (1785): 154
9 August 1870: The first Married Women's Property Act gave...
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9 August 1870
The first Married Women's Property Act gave women the right to certain property: wages, investments, and legacies under £200.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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January 1816: William Cobbett in the Political Register...
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January 1816
William Cobbett
in the Political Register made an offer to help Gentlemen in England and America, respectively, acquire the publications of the other country.
Chandler, James. England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
461
1881: The last of Sarah Lane's translated dramas,...
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1881
The last of Sarah Lane
's translated dramas, Devotion; or, The Priceless Wife, appeared at the Britannia Theatre
.
Davis, Jim. “Sarah Lane: questions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 125-47.
130
1598: John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury,...
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1598
John Whitgift
, Archbishop of Canterbury, prohibited the running of any school in the Cathedral, of maiden children especially, except for the Queen's School, and that for the choristers.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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1806: The young Lord Byron privately printed his...
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1806
The young Lord Byron
privately printed his first book, Fugitive Pieces, which was immediately suppressed.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
1949: A Royal Commission on the Press that had...
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1949
A Royal Commission on the Press that had been established in 1947 (the first of three between that year and 1974) called for the setting up of a self-regulating body: the General Council of the Press
April 1874: T. J. Haslam edited the first issue of the...
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April 1874
T. J. Haslam
edited the first issue of the Women's Advocate, irregularly published in Dublin and considered Ireland 's first feminist paper.
From December 1938: British actress Vivien Leigh starred as Scarlett...
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From December 1938
British actress Vivien Leigh
starred as Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone With the Wind, based on the bestselling (and Pulitzer-Prize-winning) novel of the same name by Margaret Mitchell
, about the end of...
31 August 1916: The wildly successful Chu Chin Chow, a musical...
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31 August 1916
The wildly successful Chu Chin Chow, a musical extravaganza based on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, opened in London.
Barker, Clive. “Theatre and society: the Edwardian legacy, the First World War and the inter-war years”. British Theatre between the Wars, 1918-1939, edited by Clive Barker and Maggie B. Gale, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 4-37.
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Author profile
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.
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