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24 March 1875: The Times reported that the colonial government...

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24 March 1875

The Times reported that the colonial government of Madras in India was seeking women to come and study medicine.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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17 June 1911: The Women's Coronation Procession was attended...

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17 June 1911

The Women's Coronation Procession was attended by 40,000 women from at least twenty-eight women's suffrage organisations, including both the Women's Social and Political Union and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
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Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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October 1840: An article in the Chartist Chronicle maintained...

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October 1840

An article in the Chartist Chronicle maintained that poetry was, for the working-class reader, the most significant source of knowledge of the world.
Yan, Shu-chuan. “’When Common Voices Speak’: Labour, Poetry and Eliza Cook”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 4, Nov. 2015, pp. 428-54.
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1718: Lady Teynham, a widow, was deprived of custody...

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1718

Lady Teynham , a widow, was deprived of custody of her infant child, principally on the ground of her being a Roman Catholic (though in fact the father's rights were legally paramount).
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
39 (1829): 188

November 1822: At the Congress of Verona, European powers...

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November 1822

At the Congress of Verona, European powers discussed the implications of the recent revolution in Spain; but there was resistance to Metternich 's proposal to establish an Italian commission to oversee the police...

By December 1981: Afro-American feminist bell hooks (born Gloria...

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By December 1981

Afro-American feminist bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins ) followed her first poetry collection with the first of her important works of feminist theory, Ain't I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism.
Biggs, Mary. “Review of Aint I a WomanLibrary Journal, 1 Dec. 1981, p. 2326.

1790: Newspaper sales in England totalled more...

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1790

Newspaper sales in England totalled more than 16 million.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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1 April 1983: Eighty thousand people (according to figures...

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1 April 1983

Eighty thousand people (according to figures put out by CND) linked hands in a 14-mile chain joining Greenham Common air-force base to Burghfield air-force base by way of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Diary”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
, No. 7, 5 Apr. 2018, pp. 42-3.
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1913: Norway passed a Woman Suffrage Act (following...

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1913

Norway passed a Woman Suffrage Act (following the similar Act passed by Finland in 1906).
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
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“International Woman Suffrage Timeline”. About.com: Women’s History.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914.
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26 January 1871: The Committee for Securing Complete Medical...

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26 January 1871

The Committee for Securing Complete Medical Education to Women in Edinburgh was formed.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
132-3

1891: Arthur Munby published this year two books...

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1891

Arthur Munby published this year two books reflecting his interest in the working classes—the pseudonymous Vulgar Verses contained some work in dialect, while Faithful Servants collected hundreds of epitaths and obituaries—plus Vestigia Retrorsum, a...

July 1862: The Home and Foreign Review, organ of the...

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July 1862

The Home and Foreign Review, organ of the Catholic movement, began publication in London.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw

MACB was the author of two early nineteenth-century historical novels, and, in her prefatory material, of some incisive comments on novel-writing.
Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw Three-quarter-length painting of Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw by Thomas Lawrence, 1806. She is depicted outdoors, in motion, wearing a pink gown and orange shawl, picking grapes with her face turned to the viewer and framed in unruly dark curls.

1531: Sir Thomas Elyot published The Boke of the...

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1531

Sir Thomas Elyot published The Boke of the Governor, a classic Tudor treatise on education.
Powell, Ken, and Chris Cook. English Historical Facts: 1485-1603. Macmillan, 1977.
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1842: Anders Adolf Retzius introduced his theory...

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1842

Anders Adolf Retzius introduced his theory on head forms, including his cranial index to differentiate between races.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Williams, L. Pearce. Album of Science: The Nineteenth Century. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1978.
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28 October 1636: Harvard College was founded in Cambridge,...

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28 October 1636

Harvard College was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
Channing, Edward. A History of the United States. Macmillan, 1905–1932, 6 vols.
1: 433

1904: Four years after the death of Alicia Scott...

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1904

Four years after the death of Alicia Scott (Lady John Scott, known as author in its current form of the song Annie Laurie), a volume of her work was posthumously published as Songs and Verses.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Eleanor Sleath

ES was a popular novelist who published six titles, mostly with the Minerva Press , in little more than a decade, having begun just before the close of the eighteenth century. She sometimes intersperses poetry...

2 March-September 1878: The British Medical Journal ran a six-month...

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2 March-September 1878

The British Medical Journal ran a six-month correspondence debating whether menstruating women ought to work at curing hams.
Tannahill, Reay. Sex in History. Stein and Day, 1980.
352

June 1923: Contact, an American Quarterly Review ceased...

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June 1923

Contact, an American Quarterly Review ceased publication in New York.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
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25 November 1994: A referendum in Ireland produced a majority...

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25 November 1994

A referendum in Ireland produced a majority of 9,000 in favour of lifting the constitutional ban on divorce.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
533

November 1850: Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the...

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November 1850

Harriot Hunt was formally accepted into the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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13 April 1797: The gathering mutiny at Spithead off Portsmouth...

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13 April 1797

The gathering mutiny at Spithead off Portsmouth was reported by telegraph (communication by flashing lights from a national system of observation posts).
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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1907: The popular novel The Expensive Miss Du Cane...

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1907

The popular novel The Expensive Miss Du Cane was published by Sarah MacNaughtan.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

February 1878: The acquittal of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie...

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February 1878

The acquittal of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in their famous obscenity trial meant that distribution of birth control information was no longer illegal.
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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