Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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14 December 1901: Guglielmo Marconi, from a wireless station...
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14 December 1901
Guglielmo Marconi
, from a wireless station at Signal Hill, St John's, Newfoundland, received signals from his station in Cornwall, England.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 493
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
609
By autumn 1963: For the first time most students entering...
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By autumn 1963
For the first time most students entering university in Britain were admitted through the new national entrance scheme administered by UCCA (Universities Central Council on Admissions
).
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
94
July 1915: The Women's Social and Political Union organised,...
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July 1915
The Women's Social and Political Union
organised, with government help, a Women's Right to Serve demonstration in support of their call for national conscription of women as well as men, and their support of the...
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Antonia White
AW
found composition a torment, suffered from recurrent writer's block, and discarded innumerable drafts of everything she wrote. Yet besides working as a journalist, she left more than thirty translations, four heavily autobiographical novels, some...
1861-1891: The number of hospital beds available throughout...
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1861-1891
The number of hospital beds available throughout England and Wales increased by an average of 1,600 beds per year.
Maggs, Christopher. “Nurse Recruitment to Four Provincial Hospitals 1881-1921”. Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies, Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 18-40.
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1825: Martha Pocock became the first woman to fly...
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1825
Martha Pocock
became the first woman to fly beneath a kite.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
80
13 July 1756: East Hoathley in Sussex was shaken by the...
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13 July 1756
East Hoathley in Sussex was shaken by the death of Elizabeth Elless, a destitute single woman who was about to give birth.
Connors, Richard. “Poor women, the parish and the politics of poverty”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 126-47.
126ff
1992-2000: In the USA the feminist press Spinsters Ink...
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1992-2000
In the USA the feminist press Spinsters Ink
acquired a national reputation and won a number of awards. About a quarter of its funding came from Joan Drury
, who ran it.
Niemi, Judith. “Publishing for the love of it”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxii
, No. 3, Dec. 2004, pp. 20-1.
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28 July 1848: Frederick Douglass in The North Star reported—and...
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28 July 1848
Frederick Douglass
in The North Star reported—and praised—the recent women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York.
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Editor Foner, Philip S., Greenwood Press, 1976.
49-51
September 1683: The Turks (that is, the forces of the Ottoman...
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September 1683
The Turks (that is, the forces of the Ottoman Empire) got far enough into Christian Europe to besiege the imperial city of Vienna; this remained a traumatic memory for generations.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Turkey
9 November 1989: Popular action began pulling down the Berlin...
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9 November 1989
Popular action began pulling down the Berlin Wall (erected in August 1961, which divided the city into eastern and western sectors).
Lagassé, Paul, editor. The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed., Columbia University Press, 2000.
December 1859: All government support was withdrawn from...
Eagle, Dorothy et al. The Oxford Literary Guide to Great Britain and Ireland. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1941: Equal pay for equal work without distinction...
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1941
Equal pay for equal work without distinction of sex became a recognized aim of the Trades Union Congress
.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1 January 1890: Edward Arnold founded his own publishing...
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1 January 1890
Edward Arnold
founded his own publishing house in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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19 May 1761: A new parliament was called for this date,...
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19 May 1761
A new parliament was called for this date, following elections, as was obligatory on the accession of a new monarch
.
Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein, and John, 1920 - Brooke, editors. The House of Commons, 1754-1790. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1964.
1: 535
September 1980: An open letter from the State Council of...
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September 1980
An open letter from the State Council
of China made official the policy of permitting only one child per family.
Pomfret, John. “China loses battles in its ’war’ on births”. Guardian Weekly, 18–24 May 2000, p. 29.
29
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Gustave Doré
1682: Robert Gould published a misogynist satire,...
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1682
Robert Gould
published a misogynist satire, Love Given O're: Against the Pride, Lust, and Inconstancy of Woman.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
64n10, 67
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.
1403: The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London...
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1403
The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London approved the formation of a fraternity or Guild of Stationers
. Printers became dominant in the organization by the time it became the Stationers' Company and...
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Linda Villari
Linda Villari
's writing career spans the period from the early 1870s to the early 1900s. (She began it after the death of her first husband, Vincenzo Mazini
, in 1869.) She wrote novels, short...
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Ann Wall
AW
, evidently a writer of some ability, is remarkable chiefly for the sensational nature of her single known text, which is the apparently autobiographical (though just possibly fictional) record of her survival of physical...
