Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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By 21 February 1880: Émile Zola published Nana....
1767: James Craig's design for Edinburgh New Town...
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1767
James Craig
's design for Edinburgh New Town set out to demonstrate Scotland's national pride and its British loyalty.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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1680: John Dryden, with others, published a collaborative...
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1680
John Dryden
, with others, published a collaborative verse translation of Ovid
's Epistles (or Heroides).
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
21 October 1904: British fishing vessels off the Dogger Bank...
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21 October 1904
British fishing vessels off the Dogger Bank in the North Sea were mistakenly attacked by Russian naval vessels.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
Tillyard, Stella. Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832. Chatto and Windus, 1994.
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April 1870: Sir Henry Storks was defeated in a by-election...
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April 1870
Sir Henry Storks
was defeated in a by-election at Newark, owing to agitation by anti-Contagious Diseases Acts activists.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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1735: Some Considerations upon Streetwalkers, while...
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1735
Some Considerations upon Streetwalkers, while following its predecessors in blaming prostitutes for lewdness and depravity, added the new idea that women were driven to prostitution out of economic need.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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28 March 1854: Britain and France declared war on Russia,...
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28 March 1854
Britain and France declared war on Russia, beginning the full-scale Crimean War.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Boyd, Nancy. Josephine Butler, Octavia Hill, Florence Nightingale. Macmillan, 1982.
Arbaugh, George E., and George B. Arbaugh. Kierkegaard’s Authorship; A Guide to the Writings of Kierkegaard. Augustana College Library, 1967.
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1741/2: London acquired an addition to its list of...
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1741/2
London acquired an addition to its list of public places of entertainment: Ranelagh Gardens, famous for its Rotunda.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
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Vickery, Amanda. “Venice-on-Thames”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2013, pp. 31-2.
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Author profile
Elizabeth Beverley
EB
's works, all opportunistic money-raisers, are pamphlets of many different kinds, dating from the early nineteenth century. Their production was closely connected with her career as a stage performer. Some are in verse, while...
1882: An Ancient Monuments Act passed through parliament:...
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1882
An Ancient Monuments Act passed through parliament
: a landmark in conservation of old buildings.
Thomas, Keith. “Hugh Dalton to the Rescue”. London Review of Books, 13 Nov. 1997, pp. 7-8.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
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Saturday 19 June 1926
About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
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Ducey, Mitchell F., editor. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.
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Times. Times Publishing Company.
New York Times. New York Times Company.
22 August 1282: Dervorguilla sealed the statutes for Balliol...
Jones, John, 1942 -. Balliol College: A History. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Jones, John, 1942 -. Balliol College: A History. 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1997.
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16 January 1920: Prohibition came into force in the United...
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16 January 1920
Prohibition came into force in the United States: President Woodrow Wilson
had vetoed the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Bill on 27-8 October 1919, only to be overruled by the House
and Senate
.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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By August 1833: Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published...
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By August 1833
Agnes Bulmer
née Collinson (1775-1836) published her Methodist
epic poem Messiah's Kingdom, in nearly 14,000 lines of rhymed couplets.
Winckles, Andrew O. “The Book of Nature and the Methodist Epic: Agnes Bulmer’s Analogic Poetics and the End(s) of Romanticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
22
, No. 2, May 2015, pp. 209-28.
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2 May 1923: Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield...
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
