Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Emma Tennant
ET
wrote and published in many genres between 1973 and the second decade of the twenty-first century, and often blended one genre with another.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
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24 January 1730: Dr John Mowbray published The Female Physician,...
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24 January 1730
Dr John Mowbray
published The Female Physician, containing all the Diseases incident to that Sex . . ..
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9 November 1580: At Smerwick on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland...
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9 November 1580
At Smerwick on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland the English Lord Deputy, Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton
, ordered the massacre about 600 European mercenary soldiers who had already surrendered to him.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Frances Eleanor Trollope
FET
wrote upwards of fourteen Victorian novels as well as contributing to many periodicals. Much of her fiction is peopled by eccentric cosmopolitan Londoners, Italian and French visitors, and motherless, bright, and educated young women...
1860: Albert Niemann isolated the drug cocaine...
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1860
Albert Niemann
isolated the drug cocaine from the leaves of the coca bush.
Berridge, Virginia, and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England. St Martin’s Press, 1981.
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1913: In London, the Malthusian League published...
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1913
In London, the Malthusian League
published a pamphlet, Hygienic Methods of Family Limitation, for distribution among the working classes: it advocated withdrawal, douching and condoms as birth control methods.
Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
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Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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1974: The United Nations International Conference...
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1974
The United Nations
International Conference on Population and Development met in Bucharest, Romania, to mark World Population Year.
Asbell, Bernard. The Pill: A Biography of the Drug that Changed the World. Random House, 1995.
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Ledbetter, Rosanna. A History of the Malthusian League: 1877-1927. Ohio State University Press, 1976.
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Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.
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Greer, Germaine. The Madwoman’s Underclothes. Picador, 1987.
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December 1789: More than fifty prostitutes were arrested...
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December 1789
More than fifty prostitutes were arrested during a single Saturday night sweep of the Strand.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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January 1873: Jane Elizabeth Senior was appointed as a...
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January 1873
Jane Elizabeth Senior
was appointed as a (temporary) government inspector of pauper schools and workhouses: the first woman to hold this office.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...
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24 January 1824
The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 528-32
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About 1430-50: English scribes all over the country gradually...
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About 1430-50
English scribes all over the country gradually shifted from local dialects to a centralised form of Chancery English.
Riddy, Felicity. “Julian of Norwich and Self-Textualization”. Editing Women, edited by Ann M. Hutchison, University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 101-24.
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1909: Elizabeth Davenay, a semi-autobiographical...
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1909
Elizabeth Davenay, a semi-autobiographical novel set in Paris, was published by Claire De Pratz
.
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1 October-8 November 1936: The National Protest March from Coventry...
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1 October-8 November 1936
The National Protest March from Coventry to London took place; at the concluding rally Maud Brown
argued for a housewife's minimum wage.
Bruley, Sue. “A Woman’s Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars”. This Working-Day World: Women’s Lives and Culture(s) in Britain, 1914-1945, edited by Sybil Oldfield, Taylor and Francis, 1994, pp. 40-53.
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10 October 1881: The Savoy Theatre in the Strand was opened...
4 August 1926: The Adoption of Children Act (or Adoption...
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4 August 1926
The Adoption of Children Act (or Adoption Act), the first adoption legislation in England and Wales, granted courts the power to make adoption orders.
Pfeffer, Naomi. The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine. Polity Press, 1993.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1926): 245-53
Reeves, Josephine. “The Deviant Mother and Child: The Development of Adoption as an Instrument of Social Control”. Journal of Law and Society, Vol.
20
, No. 4, 1 Dec. 1993–28 Feb. 1994, pp. 412-26.
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Margaret Croker
MC
, publishing in the early nineteenth century, is a competent poet (best when least formal) but an outstanding novelist, even on the evidence of her one identified work of fiction (among at least three published).
23 July 1979: The Irish Health (Family Planning) Act set...
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23 July 1979
The Irish Health (Family Planning) Act set up a family planning service and allowed the purchase of contraceptive devices with a doctor's prescription.
Acts of the Oireachtas. Stationery Office, 1938–2026.
20 (1979)
Sawyer, Roger. We Are But Women: Women in Ireland’s History. Routledge, 1993.
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Shatter, Alan Joseph. Family Law in the Republic of Ireland. 2nd ed., Wolfhound Press, 1981.
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Christopher St John
Writing from the beginning of the twentieth century, CSJ
produced novels, biography, and love-journals, as well as her work for the stage, for which she wrote translations, adaptations, and original plays. She is best...
8 November 1728: The mercury Anne Dodd was sentenced to Newgate...
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8 November 1728
The mercuryAnne Dodd
was sentenced to Newgate Prison
for publishing a libel; she had petitioned against the sentence, as a working woman not as a figure of pathos.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
