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1913: Horace Blake: A Novel by Josephine Ward was...

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1913

Horace Blake: A Novel by Josephine Ward was published in London.
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.

1829: Construction of Southend Pier in Essex—the...

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1829

Construction of Southend Pier in Essex—the world's largest pier—began.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1873: In an unlikely alliance, Octavia Hill's charitable...

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1873

In an unlikely alliance, Octavia Hill 's charitable visitors and volunteer rent collectors began to share information with the Marylebone Poor Law officials.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
131, 133

9 September 1811: Thomas Moore's comic opera M. P., or The...

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9 September 1811

Thomas Moore 's comic opera M. P., or The Blue-Stocking premiered at The Theatre Royal, English Opera House .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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25 October 1154: King Stephen died; Henry II assumed the throne...

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25 October 1154

King Stephen died; Henry II assumed the throne of England on 19 December 1154.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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27 October 1967: The Abortion Act of 1967 allowed termination...

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27 October 1967

The Abortion Act of 1967 allowed termination of pregnancy at up to 28 weeks in England, Scotland, and Wales (not Northern Ireland) by a registered medical practitioner with approval of two additional practitioners.
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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1868: The cast of Tom Robertson's theatre production...

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1868

The cast of Tom Robertson 's theatre production Caste travelled across the country by rail, beginning the tradition of the touring theatre company.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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17 January 1955: The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear powered...

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17 January 1955

The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine, was launched.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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January 1866: The Englishwoman's Review began publication...

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January 1866

The Englishwoman's Review began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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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.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
434

1898: Canadian Joanna Ellen Wood published at Toronto...

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1898

Canadian Joanna Ellen Wood published at Toronto her novel Judith Moore, or, Fashioning a Pipe.
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By April 2006: Commentators on the British book trade were...

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By April 2006

Commentators on the British book trade were disturbed at inflated advances distorting the market: a much-cited example was the million pounds paid by Orion to twenty-year-old singer Charlotte Church for her life story.
Kean, Danuta. “Don’t give up the day job”. Mslexia, No. 29, Apr. 2006, pp. 9-12.
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1508: Desiderius Erasmus, while staying with Sir...

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1508

Desiderius Erasmus , while staying with Sir Thomas More on his second visit to England, wrote his Encomium Moriae (also known as In Praise of Folly), which was published the following year.
Guthkelch, Adolph Charles, and Sir Thomas More. “Note; Introduction”. Utopia, edited by George Sampson and George Sampson, G. Bell and Sons, 1914, p. v - vii; xi-xxv.
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Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...

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Late March 1673

The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England and an oath against the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
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Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
326

1956: Egyptian women and Tunisian women both received...

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1956

Egyptian women and Tunisian women both received the right to vote this year.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1839: At Cambridge, the Cambridge Network—which...

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1839

At Cambridge, the Cambridge Network—which included John Herschel , William Babbage , George Peacock , George Airy , Adam Sedgwick , and William Whewell —lobbied to establish the formal study of science.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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11 November 1919: Air Mail Service began....

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11 November 1919

Air Mail Service began.
Penrose, Harald. Wings Across the World: An Illustrated History of British Airways. Cassell, 1980.
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1912: The London exhibition of Kay Nielsen's The...

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1912

The London exhibition of Kay Nielsen 's The Book of Death instigated widespread interest in this Danish illustrator, known for his work on children's books.
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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1983: Trouble and Strife began publication as a...

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1983

Trouble and Strife began publication as a radical feminist magazine.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
252
Ulrich’s International Periodicals Directory 1999. 37th ed., R. R. Bowker, 1998.
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3 April 1867: Isaac Baker Brown was expelled from the Obstetrical...

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3 April 1867

Isaac Baker Brown was expelled from the Obstetrical Society of London for failing to obtain patients' consent for performing clitoridectomies.
Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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10 August 1961: Britain applied, for the first time, for...

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10 August 1961

Britain applied, for the first time, for membership in the Common Market (later the European Community). This application was defeated by opposition from France in the person of President Charles de Gaulle .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
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March-December 1863: Charles Reade's Hard Cash was serialised...

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March-December 1863

Charles Reade 's Hard Cash was serialised as Very Hard Cash in Dickens' weekly paper All the Year Round.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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November 1886: The monthly magazine Lady's World: A Magazine...

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November 1886

The monthly magazine Lady's World: A Magazine of Fashion and Society began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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6 June 1762: A British expedition sent to invade Cuba...

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6 June 1762

A British expedition sent to invade Cuba reached Havana.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Mary Ann Browne

MAB wrote in the early nineteenth century and died in her early thirties. During her short career she published eight volumes of poetry, and was estimated to have printed in periodicals and annuals probably as...