Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Amelia Beauclerc
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's half-dozen novels, all published within a decade of the early nineteenth century and of oddly varying quality, centre on the theme of bad parenting. Many include travel and several touch the fringes of...
October 1854: Coventry Patmore anonymously published The...
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October 1854
Coventry Patmore
anonymously published The Betrothal, the first part of his poetic celebration of courtship, marriage, and conservative gender roles, The Angel in the House.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Weinig, Mary Anthony. Coventry Patmore. Twayne, 1981.
Anstruther, Ian. Coventry Patmore’s Angel: A Study of Coventry Patmore, His Wife Emily, and The Angel in the House. Haggerston Press, 1992.
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8 February 1913: A newspaper reported the public-speaking...
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8 February 1913
A newspaper reported the public-speaking debut of Helen Keller
, who became blind and deaf as a baby, lived to the age of seven before she acquired language, and published a best-selling autobiography in 1903.
Hacking, Ian. “Gabble, Twitter and Hoot”. London Review of Books, 1 July 1999, pp. 15-16.
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14 October 1947: Captain Charles E. Yeager, flying a Bell...
Harrison, Brian. “College Life, 1918-1939”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 81-108.
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Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
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Green, Vivian Hubert Howard. A History of Oxford University. Batsford, 1974.
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The Ship. St Anne’s College.
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1829: Professor Robert Christenson became one of...
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1829
Professor Robert Christenson
became one of the first scientists to publish a systematic investigation into the effects of drug use, in his Treatise on Poisons.
Berridge, Virginia, and Griffith Edwards. Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England. St Martin’s Press, 1981.
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1976: USA feminist Shere Hite published The Hite...
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1976
USA feminist Shere Hite
published The Hite Report; academics queried her methodology and the conservative right loathed her findings, but many women welcomed them.
Smith, Joan. “Love and Hate”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Apr. 2000, p. 23.
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Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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1 October 1828: The Cambridge campaign to increase the study...
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1 October 1828
The Cambridge
campaign to increase the study of science in universities resulted in the founding of University College, London
, which emphasized science; this was the date of the inaugural lecture.
Merrill, Lynn L. The Romance of Victorian Natural History. Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
January 1963: Kim Philby, perhaps the cleverest of the...
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January 1963
Kim Philby
, perhaps the cleverest of the group of Britons who had been spying for Soviet Russia for years, was confronted with his guilt and offered immunity in exchange for a full confession. Instead...
23 December 1919: The Nurses Registration Act established a...
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23 December 1919
The Nurses Registration Act established a General Nursing Council
to create and maintain a register of nurses in England and Wales; parliament also passed separate laws on the same day to take effect in...
1737: Alexander Cruden, who later in life styled...
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1737
Alexander Cruden
, who later in life styled himself Alexander the Corrector, published his Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1955: Italian artist Pietro Annigoni drew record...
4 November 1978: At the first US feminist anti-pornography...
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4 November 1978
At the first US feminist anti-pornography conference, hosted by San Francisco's Galileo High School, Andrea Dworkin
addressed about 3,000 demonstrators on the first Take Back the Night march—which occupied the city's pornography district with...
1907: Poems of Love and Death written by Caroline...
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1907
Poems of Love and Death written by Caroline Lindsay
was published. It was one of the last poetry collections Lady Lindsay published.
1939-44: During the war years books were exempt from...
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1939-44
During the war years books were exempt from purchase tax, and book sales per head of population in Britain went up by fifty per cent. At the same time bombed-out libraries developed the need to...
4 June 1940: The twenty-three-year-old Carson McCullers...
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4 June 1940
The twenty-three-year-old Carson McCullers
won a chorus of praise with her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, centred on a young white girl growing up in the racist American south.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 June 2008
12 March-1 October 1713: Richard Steele published a periodical entitled...
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12 March-1 October 1713
Richard Steele
published a periodical entitled the Guardian.
Steele, Sir Richard et al., editors. The Guardian. University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
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1855: James Ridgway published a pamphlet entitled...
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1855
James Ridgway
published a pamphlet entitled Remarks on the Law of Marriage and Divorce; suggested by the Honourable Mrs Norton
's Letter to the Queen.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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7 September 1912: Woman, a feminist paper, then a fashionable...
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7 September 1912
Woman, a feminist paper, then a fashionable ladies' magazine, ceased publication in London.
