Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1892: The first edition of Sir William Osler's...
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1892
The first edition of Sir William Osler
's famous medical textbook, Principles and Practice of Medicine, was published in Edinburgh by Young J. Pentland
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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November 1896: The Lady's Realm began publication in London;...
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November 1896
The Lady's Realm began publication in London; while much concerned with fashion, it also published contemporary fiction.
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1884: The first public telephones, accepting money...
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1884
The first public telephones, accepting money in a slot, were introduced into British shops; they were later shielded from the gaze of onlookers by curtains.
Guardian Weekly.
(1-7 February 2001): 7
1655: An inscription was placed on a special two-person...
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1655
An inscription was placed on a special two-person bench in a church at Ferryside in Wales, designed for married couples to do public penance for quarrelling.
Gillis, John R. For Better, For Worse: British Marriages, 1600 to the Present. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1889: Friedrich Nietzsche published Götzen-Dämmerung...
1934: The Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) passed...
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1934
The Women's Co-operative Guild
(WCG) passed a resolution calling for the legalisation of abortion, becoming the first woman's organisation to pass such a resolution.
Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
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Graves, Pamela M. Labour Women: Women in British Working-Class Politics, 1918-1939. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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12 April 1793: Foreigners in Paris, who had already become...
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12 April 1793
Foreigners in Paris, who had already become the object of surveillance, were officially prohibited from leaving the country.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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1784: John Wesley broke finally with the Church...
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Catherine Holland
A seventeenth-century woman who used the familiar letter as an instrument both for religious understanding and for taking control of her own life, CH
is known as a convent autobiographer. She also wrote other texts...
July 1975: The illustrious Cornhill Magazine ceased...
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July 1975
The illustrious Cornhill Magazine ceased publication after a hundred and fifteen years in print.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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9 December 1789: The French National Assembly began to abolish...
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9 December 1789
The French National Assembly
began to abolish old provinces and create new départements or regions.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
214,
Later 1864: To preclude occupation by the German Confederation...
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Later 1864
To preclude occupation by the German Confederation of the Schleswig-Holstein Duchies (lying between Denmark and Prussia, ruled by Denmark), Bismarck
led an alliance of Prussia and Austria, which defeated Denmark in the summer.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1824: Timothy Burstall and John Hill built a prototype...
Historians Montagu and Bird record that Burstall and Hill unsuccessfully tried to run this coach in 1825.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Beaulieu, Edward, Lord Montagu of, and Anthony Bird. Steam Cars 1770-1970. Cassell, 1971.
51
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Catherine Phillips
Writing in the late eighteenth century, CP
centred all her literary work on her Quaker
religion, yet both her poetry and prose also deal with secular politics. She wrote pamphlets, sermons, personal letters and formal...
April 1942: The Women's Timber Corps was established...
Burton, Elizabeth, and Felix Kelly. The Georgians at Home. Arrow Books, 1973.
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30 June 1688: A letter was signed by national leaders inviting...
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30 June 1688
A letter was signed by national leaders inviting William of Orange
to assume the throne of England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
28: 663
2 June 1756: The London Foundling Hospital was granted...
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2 June 1756
The LondonFoundling Hospital
was granted £10,000 on the condition of maintaining an open admissions policy.
Innes, Joanna. “The Domestic Face of the Military-Fiscal State: Government and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain”. An Imperial State at War, edited by Lawrence Stone, Routledge, 1994, pp. 96-127.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1756) 26: 305
Innes gives the figure for the grant as thirty thousand pounds, but the Gentleman's Magazine...
1589: Richard Hakluyt published Principall Navigations,...
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1589
Richard Hakluyt
published Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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June 1866: The Lancet ran a debate about whether clitoridectomy...
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June 1866
The Lancet ran a debate about whether clitoridectomy cured female epilepsy.
Jalland, Patricia, and John Hooper. Women from Birth to Death: The Female Life Cycle in Britain 1830-1914. Harvester, 1986.
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1736: The first lying-in hospital in Great Britain...
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1736
The first lying-in hospital in Great Britain was established in Edinburgh.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
139
1 January 1856: The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge...
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1 January 1856
The first issue of the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine was published; it sold for a shilling.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 724
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 725
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 723-5, 729
14 March 1885: The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert...
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14 March 1885
The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert
and Sullivan
, was first performed: its Japanese setting was topical, since Japan had first opened to trade with the world two years previously.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
III: 386
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Catherine Cookson
As a later twentieth-century novelist, CC
broke records for popularity. On some tallies her number of novels passes one hundred, in addition to children's books and volumes of autobiography. Fiction and autobiography often overlap in...
