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1613: J. Guillimeau argued (like many others) that...

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1613

J. Guillimeau argued (like many others) that mothers' milk is nothing else but the [menstrual] bloud whitened.
Mendelson, Sara Heller, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England, 1550-1720. Clarendon Press, 1998.
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By the end of April 1699: The first volume of François de Fénelon's...

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By the end of April 1699

The first volume of François de Fénelon 's Télémaque appeared at Paris, and was quickly suppressed.
Labrosse, Claude. “La fiction, le récit et le livre: l’illustration du Télémaque de Fénelon”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
11
, No. 1, 1998, pp. 1-32.
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18 May 1866: The Labouring Classes Dwellings Act allowed...

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18 May 1866

The Labouring Classes Dwellings Act allowed for philanthropic organizations to borrow capital costs from the Public Works Loan Commissioners for the construction of working-class housing.
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
384
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

1880: The Obstetrical Society established examination...

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1880

The Obstetrical Society established examination centres throughout England.
Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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7 November 1972: Richard Nixon was re-elected President of...

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7 November 1972

Richard Nixon was re-elected President of the United States—although his agency in the break-in to Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate Building in Washington, DC, had already been established by reporters Carl Bernstein and...

1887: The Anatomical Society of Great Britain was...

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1887

The Anatomical Society of Great Britain was founded.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
411

1929: The Graf Zeppelin dirigible airship circumnavigated...

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1929

The Graf Zeppelin dirigible airship circumnavigated the world in twenty-one days (twelve flying days); journalists aboard included one woman, Lady Grace Hay-Drummond-Hay , who later rode the Hindenburg.
Turner, Ernest Sackville. “Gas-Bags”. London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2001, pp. 34-5.
34-5

23 February 1813: William Elmes published in Caricature Magazine...

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23 February 1813

William Elmes published in Caricature Magazine a print entitled Exporting Cattle Not Insurable, showing sailors taking prostitutes on board ship.
McCreery, Cindy. “True Blue and Black, Brown and Fair: prints of British sailors and their women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 135-52.
140-1, 151 n19

2 September 1829: Fatality, a play written by Caroline Boaden,...

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2 September 1829

Fatality, a play written by Caroline Boaden , premiered at the Theatre Royal .
Moody, Jane. “Illusions of authorship”. Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 99-124.
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Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
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Newey, Katherine. Women’s Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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1819: The committee of the Bible Society formally...

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1819

The committee of the Bible Society formally declared its deep gratitude for the efforts of its female auxiliaries: these numbered 350 branches with 10,000 members annually raising tens of thousands of pounds.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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Dorothy Leigh

Of the seventeenth-century authors of mothers' legacies for their children, DL was the earliest to reach print, and probably the most morally and theologically focussed. Writing for sons, not daughters, she gives clear and firm...

1903: Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) was identified...

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1903

Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon ) was identified as the probable source of about 1,300 cases of typhoid fever that occurred in New York.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
366

21 May 1792: A Royal Proclamation was issued against Seditious...

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21 May 1792

A Royal Proclamation was issued against Seditious Writings and Publications which were said to be inciting tumult and disorder against the British laws and constitution—which, it implied, were not susceptible of improvement.
Barbauld, Anna Letitia. Poems. J. Johnson, 1773.
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McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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1853: The United Kingdom Alliance, a temperance...

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1853

The United Kingdom Alliance , a temperance reform group dedicated to prohibition, formed in Manchester.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
75-6, 78-9

4-11 February 1945: At the Yalta Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt,...

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4-11 February 1945

At the Yalta Conference, Stalin , Roosevelt , and Churchill decided on principles that would shape the world after the end of the Second World War.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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27 November 1937: A musical called Pins and Needles opened...

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27 November 1937

A musical called Pins and Needles opened on Broadway which, uniquely, was mounted by a trade union, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union .
Goldman, Harry Merton. “Pins and Needles: A White House Command Performance”. Educational Theatre Journal, Vol.
30
, No. 1, Mar. 1978, pp. 90-101.

1811-53: The French Biographie Universelle appeared...

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1811-53

The French Biographie Universelle appeared in 53 volumes, covering an international range of subjects: on this George Smith first modelled, in 1882, his plan for an English Dictionary of National Biography.
Holland, Peter. “Sidney Lee as Biographer of Shakespeare”. Early Modern Lives: Biography and Autobiography, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Conference, London, 27 June 2002.

1979: Anna Adams published her verse letter A Reply...

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1979

Anna Adams published her verse letter A Reply to Intercepted Mail (A Verse-Letter to W. H. Auden ) in the Peterloo Poets series.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Clara Codd

Clara Codd 's career in print spanned fifty years. Beginning in 1916 with her Theosophy for Very Little Children, she was a prolific writer of Theosophical texts. She also wrote poetry and an autobiography...
Clara Codd Monochrome studio portrait of Clara Codd, c. 1910. She is standing behind a table, a book in her left hand. She has a neutral expression, and wears a dark dress with white detail around the sleeves and on the lower half of the bodice, as well as a long bead necklace.

Summer 1898: Gwendoline Keats (Zack) protested against...

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Summer 1898

Gwendoline Keats (Zack) protested against creeping commercialisation and self-advertisement in the world of writing by refusing to supply a publicity photo requested by The Bookman.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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1905: Two years after the invention of the first...

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1905

Two years after the invention of the first disposable safety-razor blade, the American Safety Razor Company began to produce razors and blades for Britain.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
240-1
Tenner, Edward. “A Place for Hype”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 33-4.
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1715: Sybilla Masters, visiting England from America,...

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1715

Sybilla Masters , visiting England from America, applied for a patent for some undisclosed invention or process.
MacLeod, Christine. Inventing the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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1957: Elizabeth Cadell's Bridal Array was first...

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1957

Elizabeth Cadell 's Bridal Array was first published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

4 April 1931: Anne Hepple, the new editor of the Religious...

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4 April 1931

Anne Hepple , the new editor of the Religious Tract Society 's Woman's Magazine, wrote that the Society's aim was to divert attention from some of the cheap literature of to-day, which, along with...

14 May 1857: Sir Thomas Erskine Perry and Richard Monckton...

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14 May 1857

Sir Thomas Erskine Perry and Richard Monckton Milnes presented a Married Women's Property Bill to the House of Commons .
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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Helsinger, Elizabeth K. et al. The Woman Question. Garland, 1983.
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