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Deborah Levy

South-African-born DL began writing experimental fiction, plays, and poetry during the 1980s. She also worked in journalism, performance art and mixed media. By 2021 she had published six novels, three volumes of stories, and three...
Deborah Levy Portrait of Deborah Levy. She is against a faint green backdrop and wears a black cardigan and naby top. She has a very fierce gaze.

August 1863: Rosa Mulholland's story Mrs. Archie appeared...

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August 1863

Rosa Mulholland 's story Mrs. Archie appeared in the Cornhill Magazine.
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.

March 1872: The Dundee and District Domestic Servants...

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March 1872

The Dundee and District Domestic Servants Association was formed in Dundee, Scotland.
Gordon, Eleanor. Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland 1850-1914. Clarendon, 1991, http://University of Toronto (Robarts).
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October 1910: The Working Gentlewomen's Journal, a monthly...

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October 1910

The Working Gentlewomen's Journal, a monthly with articles on genteel employment, ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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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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July 1848: In the shadow of the Great Famine, the Young...

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July 1848

In the shadow of the Great Famine, the Young Irelanders staged a revolt or rebellion against British rule and suffered ignominious defeat.
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
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1866: Forty workhouses in London were employing...

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1866

Forty workhouses in London were employing 142 nurses for approximately 21,250 patients.
Dingwall, Robert et al. An Introduction to the Social History of Nursing. Routledge, 1988.
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February 1915: Margaret Damer Dawson formed the Women's...

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February 1915

Margaret Damer Dawson formed the Women's Police Service after the Women's Police Volunteers disagreed over its level of cooperation with male police and the military surveillance of women.
Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914. Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1988.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols.
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Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
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1904: The first scientific paper read by a woman...

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1904

The first scientific paper read by a woman for the Royal Society was delivered by Hertha Ayrton .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Jones, Claire. “Women’s History Month: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923): scientist yet ’in every way a woman’”. Women’s History Network Blog, 23 Mar. 2010.

Early 1862: Sculptor Harriet Hosmer was working in Rome...

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Early 1862

Sculptor Harriet Hosmer was working in Rome on a commission for patron of the arts Marian Alford , entitled Fountain of the Siren.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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1973: Julia Phillips became the first woman to...

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1973

Julia Phillips became the first woman to win an Oscar for film production: she shared the award, for producing The Sting, with Tony Bill and her husband Michael .
Baxter, Brian. “Julia Phillips”. The Guardian, 4 Jan. 2002, p. 20.
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1715: A place of entertainment named Spring Gardens...

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1715

A place of entertainment named Spring Gardens opened in Leeds, the earliest of many such enterprises in other towns modelled on Vauxhall Gardens in London.
Vickery, Amanda. “Venice-on-Thames”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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1840: Friedrich Gottlob Keller received a German...

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1840

Friedrich Gottlob Keller received a German patent for a wood-grinding machine used to make pulp for paper manufacturing.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
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January 1789: In France Emmanuel Sieyès published an immensely...

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January 1789

In FranceEmmanuel Sieyès published an immensely influential pamphlet, whose title in English is What is the Third Estate?
Runciman, David. “Shockingly Worldly”. London Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2003, pp. 7-10.
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1954: Voting rights were given to women members...

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1954

Voting rights were given to women members of the United Synagogue .
Burman, Rickie. “’She Looketh Well to the Ways of Her Household’: The Changing Role of Jewish Women in Religious Life”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 234-59.
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1722: William Sewel published, through the firm...

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1722

William Sewel published, through the firm of Tace Sowle , his History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
170: 253

1904: J. Ramsay MacDonald published Women in the...

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1904

J. Ramsay MacDonald published Women in the Printing Trades: A Sociological Study.
Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
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Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
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1723: James Jurin, Secretary of the Royal Society,...

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1723

James Jurin , Secretary of the Royal Society , published a pioneering work of statistical analysis, A Letter to the Learned Caleb Cotesworth . . . Containing A Comparison Between the Morality of the Natural...

September 1929: The Open Door, campaigning for the economic...

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September 1929

The Open Door, campaigning for the economic emancipation of the woman worker, began publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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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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1884: Tory women were admitted to the newly founded...

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1884

Tory women were admitted to the newly founded Primrose League .
Walker, Linda. “Party Political Women: A Comparative Study of Liberal Women and the Primrose League, 1890-1914”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 165-91.
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1891: The first volume of The Poets and the Poetry...

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1891

The first volume of The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, Alfred H. Miles 's 10-volume anthology with biocritical headnotes, appeared; the last was published in 1897.
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.

October 1852: Matthew Arnold published Empedocles on Etna,...

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October 1852

Matthew Arnold published Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems.
Neiman, Fraser. Matthew Arnold. Twayne, 1968.
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1894: Sydney C. Grier (Hilda Caroline Gregg) published...

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1894

Sydney C. Grier (Hilda Caroline Gregg) published her first novel, In Furthest Ind: The Narrative of Mr Edward Carlyon of the Honourable East India Company's Service.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.

10 March 1768: Lord Bolingbroke divorced his wife, the former...

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10 March 1768

Lord Bolingbroke divorced his wife, the former Lady Diana Spencer , for her adultery with Topham Beauclerk , though his own infidelities were well known in society.
Rizzo, Betty. “Decorums”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 149-67.
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28 March 1942: Arthur Bomber Harris began the RAF offensive...

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28 March 1942

Arthur Bomber Harris began the RAF offensive against German cities: a night raid dropped incendiary bombs on residential areas in Lübeck.
Wright, Patrick. “Dropping Their Eggs”. London Review of Books, 23 Aug. 2001, pp. 11-14.
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By June 1774: Lord Kames published with Cadell his Sketches...

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By June 1774

Lord Kames published with Cadell his Sketches in the History of Man.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
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