Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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By 8 April 1876: Sir George Otto Trevelyan published The Life...
Late 1888: Harry Quilter published Is Marriage a Failure?,...
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Late 1888
Harry Quilter
published Is Marriage a Failure?, a collection of contributions to the debate aroused by Mona Caird
's critique of marriage.
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.
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Hammerton, A. James. Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life. Routledge, 1992.
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9 March 1949: A National Theatre Act was passed by the...
Woodward, Richard, and Isobel Grundy. Email about National Theatre Act of 1949 to Isobel Grundy. 22 Aug. 2003.
22 January 2008: Day, the fifth novel by Scottish author,...
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22 January 2008
Day, the fifth novel by Scottish author, playwright and stand-up comedian A. L. Kennedy
(whose unmentioned first name is Alison), won the 2007 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book of the Year prize.
“Day: A Novel”. A. L. Kennedy: Books.
Costa Book Awards. http://replay.web.archive.org/20060615002836/http://www.costabookawards.com/.
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.
1: 548
1911: The Women's Industrial Council opened a nursery...
Mappen, Ellen. Helping Women at Work: The Women’s Industrial Council, 1889-1914. Hutchinson in association with the Explorations in Feminism Collective, 1985.
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1668: Martha Taylor attracted attention for fasting:...
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1668
Martha Taylor
attracted attention for fasting: the first published account, largely in her own words, presented her abstinence as holy; an account for the Royal Society
attacked both this text and Taylor herself.
Hollis, Karen. “Fasting Women: Bodily Claims and Narrative Crises in Eighteenth-Century Science”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001–2026, pp. 523-38.
525-7
1825: Walter Hamilton in A Hand-book or Concise...
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1825
Walter Hamilton
in A Hand-book or Concise Dictionary of Terms Used in the Arts and Sciences defined the waltz as a riotous and indecent German dance.
Stovel, Nora Foster. “’Every Savage Can Dance’: Choreographing Courtship”. Persuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 29-49.
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March 1939: Nearly 5,000 works of art defined by Joseph...
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March 1939
Nearly 5,000 works of art defined by Joseph Goebbels
as decadent (painted by Jews, Slavs, or those deemed degenerate Germans) were burned outside the Fire Department in Berlin.
Gilpin, Sam. “Faking It”. London Review of Books, 10 Aug. 2000, p. 39.
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1850: The earliest periodical for women in Welsh,...
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1850
The earliest periodical for women in Welsh, the monthly Y Gymraes: cylchgrawn i ferched Cymru, issued its first number at Caerdydd or Cardiff. It was funded by Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover
, and...
18 May 1725: Lord Hervey remarked hyperbolically on the...
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18 May 1725
Lord Hervey
remarked hyperbolically on the terminal decay of marriage as an institution among the upper classes.
Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Comet of the Enlightenment. Clarendon, 1999.
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1870: The Royal Hants Infirmary in Southampton...
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1870
The Royal Hants Infirmary
in Southampton refused to construct a lock ward for the compulsory treatment of prostitutes, in defiance of the wishes of the Admiralty
.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
116
1749: The philosophe Buffon began publishing his...
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1749
The philosophe Buffon
began publishing his Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, one of the great Enlightenment collaborative projects for the advancement of learning.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
99
24 December 1812: The first news of Napoleon's catastrophic...
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24 December 1812
The first news of Napoleon
's catastrophic retreat from Moscow reached Britain through a report in The Times.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
McCarthy, Voice 482
20-21 May 1932: Amelia Earhart, in a Lockheed Vega, became...
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20-21 May 1932
Amelia Earhart
, in a Lockheed Vega, became the first woman to make a solo Atlantic crossing.
Rich, Doris L. Amelia Earhart : a biography. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
132-4
Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard. Aviation: An Historical Survey from its Origins to the end of World War II. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.
249
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
468
June 1857: The Christian Lady's Magazine (not the journal...
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June 1857
The Christian Lady's Magazine (not the journal of this title formerly edited by Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
) ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
216
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Around 1941-43: The publication of patriotic statistics encouraged...
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Around 1941-43
The publication of patriotic statistics encouraged newspaper and magazine recycling (generally known as salvage).
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
143
Briggs, Susan. Keep Smiling Through. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
175, 187
26-29 May 1784: The first Handel Commemmoration Concert marked...
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26-29 May 1784
The first Handel
Commemmoration Concert marked the centenary of his birth: three immensely popular charity performances were given at Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon
.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
403-4
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
54 (1784): 391-3
February 1849: Matthew Arnold published his first volume...
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February 1849
Matthew Arnold
published his first volume of poetry, The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, anonymously under the initial A.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1144 (29 Sept. 1849): 982-3
Neiman, Fraser. Matthew Arnold. Twayne, 1968.
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1959: Margaret Stanley Wrench's second poetry collection,...
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1959
Margaret Stanley Wrench
's second poetry collection, A Tale for the Fall of the Year, was published.
KN
was a philosophical writer, novelist, translator, poet, and critic of the mid twentieth century. Her importance for literary history lies in the position she took up in The Emperor's Clothes, 1953, which challenged...
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Sophia Woodfall
SW
, whose career was in acting, published two interesting novels during the first decade of the nineteenth century. Some lines of poetry in one of them are probably her own.
14 April 1816: Bussa's Rebellion began in Barbados....
