Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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George Bradshaw
From 1933: The flow of refugees from Germany to Britain...
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From 1933
The flow of refugees from Germany to Britain began; by 1939 about 56,000 people, including more than ten thousand children, had arrived from old and new German territories including Czechoslovakia.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
103
1602: Angélique Arnaud was still a child when,...
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1602
Angélique Arnaud
was still a child when, because of the eminence of her family, she was appointed abbess of the convent of Port Royal
in France; she began to reform the convent after her...
13 August 1971: A report by Detective Chief Inspector George...
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13 August 1971
A report by Detective Chief Inspector George Fenwick
to Home Secretary Reginald Maudling
justified the public prosecution for indecency of hippie publications like the magazine Oz.
Travis, Alan. “Oz trial lifted lid on bribery in porn squad”. Guardian Weekly, 18–24 Nov. 1999, p. 11.
11
15 October 1937: The ballet Checkmate, choreographed by Ninette...
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
383
14 November 1834: George Stephen told Anne Knight that women,...
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14 November 1834
George Stephen
told Anne Knight
that women, banded together in Ladies' Societies, deserved most credit for the recent Abolition Act.
Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
48-50 and n68
1974: A new Juries Act reduced the minimum age...
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1974
A new Juries Act reduced the minimum age for serving on a jury in Britain to eighteen, and altered the qualification from property-owning to having one's name on the electoral register.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
13
1906: Karen Danielsen (later famous as Karen Horney,...
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1906
Karen Danielsen (later famous as Karen Horney
, a feminist psychoanalyst resident in the USA) attended medical school at Freiburg in Germany.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 147
Hergenhahn, Baldwin Ross. An Introduction to the History of Psychology. 2nd ed., Wadsworth Publishing, 1992, http://HSS.
488
5 April 1881: The Treaty of Pretoria ended the revolt of...
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5 April 1881
The Treaty of Pretoria ended the revolt of the Transvaal Boers, or First Boer War.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
305
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 747
1856: Fulham Refuge, a prison for women nearing...
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1856
Fulham Refuge
, a prison for women nearing the end of penal servitude sentences, opened in London.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
179-82
1885: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...
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.
Early 1780s: Hotels, as distinct from inns or taverns,...
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Early 1780s
Hotels, as distinct from inns or taverns, began to open in England, and were typically considered respectable family accommodation. But within a few years, says historian Tony Henderson
, many London hotels were reputedly haunts...
1874: Early in the Dress Reform movement, Boston...
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1874
Early in the Dress Reform movement, Boston dressmaker Olivia Flynt
patented a corset-free bust-supporter or bra.
Farrell-Beck, Jane, and Colleen Gau. Uplift: The Bra in America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
4, 6, 11, 12, 33
1864: Famous Girls who have become Illustrious...
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1864
Famous Girls who have become Illustrious Women: Forming Models for Imitation by the Young Women of England, a very popular book of biographical sketches by John M. Darton
, was published.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
27 March 1625: James I (James VI of Scotland) died, and...
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27 March 1625
James I
(James VI of Scotland) died, and his son Charles I
assumed the throne.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
425
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
44
Morrill, John. “The Stuarts (1603-1688)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 286-51.
304
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
10ff
1724: Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville published...
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1724
Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville
published A Modest Defence of Public Stews: or, An Essay upon Whoring, as it is now Practis'd in these Kingdoms.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
99-100
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.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
1863: A Government Commission on art was established;...
12 February 1980: US poet Muriel Rukeyser died in Greenwich...
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12 February 1980
US poet Muriel Rukeyser
died in Greenwich Village, New York, two years after publishing her Collected Poems and four years after her last new collection, The Gates, 1976.
Gardinier, Suzanne. “The Moral Imagination”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
23
, No. 4, July–Aug. 2006, pp. 10-11.
10-11
1861-77: Walter Bagehot edited The Economist, a journal...
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1861-77
Walter Bagehot
edited The Economist, a journal founded in 1843 and still in existence. Bagehot had become the journal's director in 1859, and remained its editor until his death.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
59, 305
St John-Stevas, Norman. Walter Bagehot: A Study of His Life and Thought Together With a Selection From His Political Writings. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1959.
xiii
1894-1896: A Gaiety Girl by Sidney Jones and Owen Hall,...
Bailey, Peter. “’Naughty but nice’: musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892-1914”. The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage, edited by Michael R. Booth and Joel H. Kaplan, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 36-60.
37-8
During the 1760s: Martha Winter (later Martha Routh, Quaker...
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During the 1760s
Martha Winter (later Martha Routh
, Quaker minister and autobiographer) was principal of a girls' boarding school which the Quakers
ran in Nottingham.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
251
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.
6 June 1778: The Carlisle Peace Commission, bearing Lord...
