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20 August 1841: The Great Niger expedition, commanded by...

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20 August 1841

The Great Niger expedition, commanded by Captain H. D. Trotter , began an ascent of the River Niger, in a bid to establish a colony in Central Africa; the attempt was unsuccessful.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 581

1862: By this date, variations on Ellen Ranyard's...

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1862

By this date, variations on Ellen Ranyard 's Bible-women were to be found in most parts of England.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
127

12 December 1889: Alfred, Lord Tennyson published Demeter and...

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12 December 1889

Alfred, Lord Tennyson published Demeter and Other Poems.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3244 (1889): 883
Martin, Robert Bernard. Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart. Clarendon Press, 1983.
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29 May 1911: Lloyd George announced that the Government...

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29 May 1911

Lloyd George announced that the Government would not give full facilities to the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) during the current session, but would do so in the next session.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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1950: Motorscooters by Vespa and Lambretta became...

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1950

Motorscooters by Vespa and Lambretta became very popular.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
257

1935: New Zealand pilot Jean Batten flew from England...

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1935

New Zealand pilot Jean Batten flew from England to New Zealand in eleven days, setting the record.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
482

6 December 1918: The first out-of-work payments of twenty-five...

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6 December 1918

The first out-of-work payments of twenty-five shillings a week were made to women war workers.
Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora, 1989.
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Braybon, Gail, and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars. Pandora, 1987.
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Violet Fane

Writing under her pseudonym of VF , Mary Montgomerie Singleton (later Mary Montgomerie Currie) produced during the later nineteenth and very early twentieth century five collections of poetry, a verse novel, a drama, three prose...

1960: The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty...

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1960

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Pregnant Women , later the Association for the Improvement of Maternity Services (AIMS), was founded in Britain to campaign for the right to have a baby free...

1892-1901: American-born reformer Victoria Woodhull...

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1892-1901

American-born reformer Victoria Woodhull published The Humanitarian, a journal devoted to eugenics and other sociological topics.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1857-1863: The number of prostitutes under sixteen years...

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1857-1863

The number of prostitutes under sixteen years of age in lock hospitals decreased to 2.3% of patients.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Late November 1717: Edmund Curll published The Ladies Miscellany,...

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Late November 1717

Edmund Curll published The Ladies Miscellany, an anthology of poems chiefly about dress, bearing the date 1718.
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.
Baines, Paul, and Pat Rogers. Edmund Curll, Bookseller. Clarendon Press, 2007.
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20 January 1724: Elizabeth Harrison wrote for publication,...

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20 January 1724

Elizabeth Harrison wrote for publication, with her name, A Letter to Mr. John Gay , On his Tragedy, call'd The Captives. To which is annex'd a copy of verses to the Princess.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

June 1762: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched...

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June 1762

John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched the anti-government paper The North Briton; on 23 April 1763 the notorious number 45 attacked the king's speech and indirectly made Wilkes into a hero of radical opinion...

Helen Maria Williams

HMW wrote, during the Romantic or revolutionary period, as a woman with a mission, eager to see change for the better in the political, international world. She was a radical and egalitarian in gender relations...
Helen Maria Williams Stippple engraving of Helen Maria Williams by Dean and Munday, published in 1816, from unknown portrait, Her hair is part in loose curls and part gathered to the top of her head. She is wearing a white, low-necked gown, a black mantle, and a double pearl necklace on which hangs a Maltese cross The portrait is oval, and has her name written underneath.

10 January 1880: The first issue of The Modern Review: A Quarterly...

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10 January 1880

The first issue of The Modern Review: A Quarterly Magazine 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.
3: 93, 95

1691: Robert Gould published A Satyrical Epistle...

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1691

Robert Gould published A Satyrical Epistle to the Female Author of a Poem, call'd Silvia's Revenge, an antifeminist contribution to the Sylvia debate.
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.

1847: Factions of the teetotal movement began to...

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1847

Factions of the teetotal movement began to agitate against smoking.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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1859: Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe developed a...

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1859

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe developed a chemical reaction which enabled the industrial production of acetylsalicylic-acid-based pain relievers.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Rocke, Alan J. Chemical Atomism in the Nineteenth Century: From Dalton to Cannizzaro. Ohio State University Press, 1984.
242-4, 256, 293, 319

1789: William Blake published the first of his...

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1789

William Blake published the first of his engraved books of lyrics, Songs of Innocence.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

By about 1800: In a ballad entitled The London Heiress,...

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By about 1800

In a ballad entitled The London Heiress, about a cross-dressed woman in battle, an earlier version was rewritten to play down the sexual element.
Dugaw, Dianne. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
54-64

F. Tennyson Jesse

FTJ , one of the few women journalists to report from the Front in the First World War, also published in a wide range of genres.
Reilly, Catherine, editor. The Virago Book of Women’ War Poetry and Verse. Virago, 1997.
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She wrote seven plays of her own and...
F. Tennyson Jesse Black and white photograph of F. Tennyson Jesse, shown from the shoulders up, in a shape with symmetrically ornamental corners. The picture, with strong light and dark contrast, shows her wearing a small hat or headband on short, dark, bushy hair parted in the middle, and a white blouse with black bow.

27 April 1795: Elizabeth Edmead, an actress at the Theatre...

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27 April 1795

Elizabeth Edmead , an actress at the Theatre Royal , Norwich, had her Serious DramaThe Events of a Day performed there with great success, judging from the reviews.
Chandler, David. “’The Athens of England’: Norwich as a Literary Center in the Late Eighteenth Century”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
43
, No. 2, 1 Dec. 2010–28 Feb. 2011, pp. 171-92.
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1559: The Roman Catholic Church set up the Index...

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1559

The Roman Catholic Church set up the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or list of prohibited books, to protect its flock from dangerous and heretical ideas.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.

Marcel Proust

French novelist, whose novel sequence A la recherche du temps perdu, published between 1913 and 1927, blends memory, invention, and psychological study of the human response to time passing. It has been almost immeasurably influential.
Marcel Proust Black and white photograph of Marcel Proust from the chest up. He is looking straight at the viewer, and is posing with his left hand touching the side of his face.