Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Isabella Kelly
IK
, who published during the very late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, was a poet and a leading Minerva Press
novelist in gothic and other modes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
She also wrote a couple of pedagogic...
14 March 1991: The Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted for...
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14 March 1991
The Birmingham Six, wrongly convicted for a fatal IRA
bombing on 24 November 1974, were released..
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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1 February 1793: Britain and revolutionary France declared...
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1 February 1793
Britain and revolutionary France declared war on each other; France also declared war on Holland. For Britain this opened a period of more than twenty years' almost unremitting warfare.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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Waldron, Mary. Lactilla, Milkwoman of Clifton: The Life and Writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
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E. B. C. Jones
EBCJ
was a modernist writer, author of two books of poetry, editor of a modernist poetry anthology, and author of five novels, besides reviews. She almost entirely stopped publishing more than thirty years before she...
Summer 19 15: Unit 3 of the Serbian Relief Fund, employing...
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Summer 19 15
Unit 3 of the Serbian Relief Fund
, employing fourteen British women doctors and addressing itself to a typhus epidemic as well as wounds from battle, operated both in a hospital at Kragujevatz and in...
25 August 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to...
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25 August 1932
Amelia Earhart
became the first woman to cross the United States in a non-stop flight.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Alison Uttley
AU
is remembered as a writer for small children. In fact, her output extended from fairy tales to finely fashioned autobiographical works; from magic and nursery rhyme to studies of place and dreams and space...
6 February 1914: The United Suffragists was established as...
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6 February 1914
The United Suffragists
was established as a new organisation open to men and women, militant and non-militant members.
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
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John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
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April 1757: Six weeks after his marriage, Edmund Burke...
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April 1757
Six weeks after his marriage, Edmund Burke
published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3 (1757): 361-74
Jarrett, Derek. “Seizing the Senses”. London Review of Books, 17 Feb. 2000, pp. 19-23.
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St Clair, William. The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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1921: Construction on the Apennine Tunnel began...
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1921
Construction on the Apennine Tunnel began in began in Italy.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1734: Jean Adam or Adams published at Glasgow her...
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.
1899: Clara Barton, founder of the American Red...
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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14 June 1890: The first issue of The Clique, a British...
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14 June 1890
The first issue of The Clique, a British antiquarian book trade journal, appeared.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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3 November 1892: The first weekly number appeared in London...
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3 November 1892
The first weekly number appeared in London of Shafts: a magazine of progressive thought (founded and edited by Margaret Shurmer Sibthorp
), which aimed at a working-class and female readership, and supported women's suffrage.
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.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
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4 August 1960: Hitchcock's thriller Psycho opened in London....
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4 August 1960
Hitchcock
's thriller Psycho opened in London. Some claim that this was the first film shown in Britain with defined programmes instead of running on a loop which could be joined or left at any time.
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
Diski, Jenny. “Mother! Oh God! Mother!”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 1, 7 Jan. 2010, pp. 28-9.
Shortly before 18 September 1997: The perimeter fence round Greenham Common,...
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Shortly before 18 September 1997
The perimeter fence round Greenham Common, site of the former United States air base, was demolished at a formal ceremony which failed to mention the women who had camped there for sixteen years in...
September 1938: The Woman's National Newspaper began publishing...
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September 1938
The Woman's National Newspaper began publishing in London; it had claimed to be the first independent newspaper in the world owned and controlled entirely by women.
18-22 March 1848: A revolution occurred in Milan, where Italian...
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18-22 March 1848
A revolution occurred in Milan, where Italian civilians clashed with the (Austrian) military of the ruling Hapsburgs before driving the soldiers out.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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1880: The ABC tea shops were established; they...
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1880
The ABC tea shops were established; they fostered women's mobility, allowing professional and business women a degree of freedom hitherto denied them.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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11 February 1722: Jonathan Swift wrote: It is a little hard,...
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11 February 1722
Jonathan Swift
wrote: It is a little hard, that not one gentleman's daughter in a thousand, should be brought to read, or understand her own natural tongue, or be judge of the easiest books that...
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Elizabeth Helme
EH
began publishing in the 1780s to supplement her family's income. She issued ten novels with her name or some other means of (at least later) identification, three translations, and a number of didactic and...
1914: My Husband Still: A Working Woman's Story,...
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1914
My Husband Still: A Working Woman's Story, a novel from Helen Hamilton
that is based on an actual woman's account of her marriage, appeared with an introduction by John Galsworthy
.
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.
