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February 1856: The Waverley Journal: For the Cultivation...

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February 1856

The Waverley Journal: For the Cultivation of the Honourable, the Progressive and the Beautiful, began fortnightly publication, advertising itself as Edited and published by Ladies.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Rendall, Jane. “A Moral Engine? Feminism, Liberalism and the English Womans JournalEqual or Different: Womens Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 112-38.
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May 1752: The Gentleman's Magazine printed a recuperative...

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May 1752

The Gentleman's Magazine printed a recuperative Memoirs of Mrs Ellen Gwynn: it praises talent, excuses sexual licence, and suggests that only circumstances prevented her from being virtuous.
Turley, Hans. “‘A Masculine Turn of Mind’: Charlotte Charke and the Periodical Press”. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma, edited by Philip E. Baruth, University of Illinois Press, 1998, pp. 180-99.
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1932: The philosopher Dorothy Emmet began her career...

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1932

The philosopher Dorothy Emmet began her career with a study of metaphysics and Alfred North Whitehead in her work Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism which is particularly useful for its elucidation of terminology.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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1791: Jeremy Bentham completed plans for the Panopticon,...

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1791

Jeremy Bentham completed plans for the Panopticon, a model utilitarian prison.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
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1834: The Theatre Royal, English Opera House became...

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1834

The Theatre Royal, English Opera House became known as the Royal Lyceum Theatre upon opening in a newly-constructed building.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
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1859: Artist James McNeill Whistler moved to L...

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1859

Artist James McNeill Whistler moved to London.
Spencer, Robin. The Aesthetic Movement: Theory and Practice. Studio Vista, 1972.
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5 January 1836: The sale of liquor to Native persons was...

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5 January 1836

The sale of liquor to Native persons was prohibited in Upper Canada.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Frances Reynolds

FR , active in the later eighteenth century, was the author of poems (one printed), a published treatise on aesthetics, essays diary entries, and a memoir of Samuel Johnson which reached print years after her...

4 May 1949: Norman Mailer published a novel about a US...

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4 May 1949

Norman Mailer published a novel about a US assault and short campaign in the Philippines during World War Two: The Naked and the Dead.
“Under Fire”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 2468, 20 May 1949, p. 325.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 May 2009

29 February 1916: A Board of Education circular stipulated...

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29 February 1916

A Board of Education circular stipulated that school children should be hired for work only when no adult man or woman could fill the position.
Andrews, Irene Osgood. Economic Effects of the War Upon Women and Children in Great Britain. Oxford University Press, 1918.
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13 September 1956: Ted Hughes published his poetry volume The...

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13 September 1956

Ted Hughes published his poetry volume The Hawk in the Rain.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
13 September 2010

7 March 1870: The Shield, Josephine Butler's periodical...

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7 March 1870

The Shield, Josephine Butler 's periodical organ of the anti-Contagious Diseases Act forces, began publication in South Shields.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Valentine's Day 1732: Henry Fielding's The Modern Husband opened;...

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Valentine's Day 1732

Henry Fielding 's The Modern Husband opened; it was published the same month.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 190
The Monthly Chronicle. Aaron Ward.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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1982: A professor of Obstetrics at the Royal Free...

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1982

A professor of Obstetrics at the Royal Free Hospital in London announced that all women in his unit must give birth lying down; 5,000 women protested on Parliament Hill.
Spallone, Patricia. Beyond Conception: The New Politics of Reproduction. Bergin and Garvey, 1989.
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April 1976: The home computer Apple 1 made its debut...

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April 1976

The home computer Apple 1 made its debut at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California. Designed by Steve Wozniak , it was mounted on a wooden stand, its component parts not covered...

October 1709: Charles Povey started a privately run postal...

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October 1709

Charles Povey started a privately run postal service in London; it was soon suppressed.
Finch, Anne. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition. Editors McGovern, Barbara and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press, 1998.
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7 December 1732: John Rich opened a new theatre in Covent...

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7 December 1732

John Rich opened a new theatre in Covent Garden , the Theatre Royal, and moved his farces and pantomimes there from the other Theatre Royal in Drury Lane .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
3: 229, 253-4

1388: The Statute of Cambridge, popularly known...

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1388

The Statute of Cambridge, popularly known as the Poor Law, was passed, classifying the types of needy and designating responsibility for their care.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.

8 June 2005: The Joint Information Systems Committee,...

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8 June 2005

The Joint Information Systems Committee , JISC, agreed to fund access in perpetuity for all British universities and post-secondary educational institutions to the digital primary-text archive Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
“Accessing the eighteenth century”. JISC inform 11, 13 Sept. 2005.

1880: With the arrival of American evangelist Richard...

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1880

With the arrival of American evangelist Richard Booth , Gospel Temperance fever swept across Britain.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1675: Mary Trye, who like her father, Thomas O'Dowde,...

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1675

Mary Trye , who like her father, Thomas O'Dowde , was a medical practitioner, published Medicatrix; or, The Woman-Physician, which is primarily a defence of him in his dispute with a rival, Henry Stubbe .
Feminist Companion Archive.

March 1950: The middle-class monthly Strand Magazine...

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March 1950

The middle-class monthly Strand Magazine ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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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.

Samuel Johnson

Arriving in eighteenth-century London as one more young literary hopeful from the provinces, SJ achieved such a name for himself as an arbiter of poetry, of morality (through his Rambler and other periodical essays and...
Samuel Johnson Portrait of Samuel Johnson painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds c. 1772 for Henry Thrale's collection in the library at Streatham Park. Johnson is seated, wearing a wig and brown waistcoat and jacket, with a frown indicating either disagreement or short sight.

8 November 1950: Claudia Jones, a radical Black journalist,...

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8 November 1950

Claudia Jones , a radical Black journalist, one of seventeen foreign-born radicals imprisoned on Ellis Island, New York, under the Internal Security Act, protested their detention in a letter printed in the Daily Worker.
Atkinson, Clarissa. “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2006, pp. 10-13.
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1875: An edition of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel...

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1875

An edition of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was published with illustrations by Gustave Doré .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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