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1835: The Geological Survey of Great Britain (the...

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1835

The Geological Survey of Great Britain (the first national survey) began.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Dean, Dennis R. “Through Science to Despair: Geology and the Victorians”. Victorian Science and Victorian Values: Literary Perspectives, edited by James Paradis and Thomas Postlewait, New York Academy of Sciences, 1981, pp. 111-36.
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20 March 1916: The Viceroy of India announced the Government's...

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20 March 1916

The Viceroy of India announced the Government's intention to abolish the system of Indian indentured labour in Jamaica, Trinidad, British Guiana, Fiji, and Dutch Surinam.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Wallace, Elisabeth. The British Caribbean: From the Decline of Colonialism to the End of Federation. University of Toronto Press, 1977.
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Gott, Richard. “Shoot them to be sure”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 26-9.
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1811: Publisher John Murray in London began working...

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1811

Publisher John Murray in London began working with William Blackwood in Edinburgh.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995.
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About the 1530s-1540s: The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library...

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About the 1530s-1540s

The Devonshire Manuscript (British Library Add. 17492) was compiled in large part by women, who edited and probably wrote and transcribed a number of the poems. The title-page of Elizabeth Heale 's edition, 2012...

Margaret Holford, the elder

Publishing from her provincial home over three decades spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Margaret Holford the elder , tried her hand at poetry, three novels (stuffed with the clichés of the genre, but lively...

1778: Gilbert Stuart published his major work,...

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1778

Gilbert Stuart published his major work, A View of Society in Europe.
O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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1679: The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties...

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1679

The Licensing Act of 1662 lapsed; penalties being no longer in force, Quaker printers began putting their names on the title-pages issuing from their shops.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
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1 December 1702: Daniel Defoe's The Shortest Way with the...

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1 December 1702

Daniel Defoe 's The Shortest Way with the Dissenters was anonymously published.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
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1770: The minority Roman Catholic population in...

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1770

The minority Roman Catholic population in Britain was estimated at 80,000.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
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Edith Wharton

EW , early twentieth-century novelist of American nationality, upper-middle-class status and subject-matter, and European cultural interests, has suffered in critical estimation by being ranked second to her friend and contemporary Henry James . Writing through...
Edith Wharton Monochrome cabinet photograph of Edith Wharton, taken by E. F. Cooper, at Newport, Rhode Island. Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. She is seated looking at the camera, in a jacket with leg-of-mutton sleeves and tight bodice, with a fall of lace in front, and a small hat with two feathers sticking up. She has two little dogs on her lap.

1677: By this year the Society of Friends included...

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1677

By this year the Society of Friends included prosperous merchants and traders in all the major centres in England and Ireland. At least fourteen substantial London merchants were Quakers, which provided a new motive...

By 24 February 1883: Elinor Louisa Huddart, as Elinor Hume, released...

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By 24 February 1883

Elinor Louisa Huddart , as Elinor Hume, released My Heart and I, a novel successful enough to cover its own costs.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1835: The London Society for the Protection of...

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1835

The London Society for the Protection of Young Females was founded.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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1794-1802: With engravings by N. Heideloff, the Gallery...

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1794-1802

With engravings by N. Heideloff , the Gallery of Fashion appeared monthly, featuring hand-coloured aquatints of current fashions.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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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.

October 1974: Continued confrontation between prisoners...

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October 1974

Continued confrontation between prisoners and authorities at the Maze Prison , Belfast, culminated when the Provisional IRA and the Official IRA set fire to the prison.
“Maze prison goes up in flames”. BBC News: On This Day, 16 Oct. 1974.

By late October 1989: Ted Hughes published his Moortown Diary,...

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By late October 1989

Ted Hughes published his Moortown Diary, which Tom Paulin has called his masterpiece.
Lucas, John, b. 1937. “The exclusive eye”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4516, 20 Oct. 1989, p. 1148.
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By late October 1975: The short-story volume Angels at the Ritz,...

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By late October 1975

The short-story volume Angels at the Ritz, by expatriate Irish writer William Trevor (born Trevor Cox in 1928), was hailed by Graham Greene as probably the best collection of stories since Joyce 's Dubliners...

1681: Richard Baxter, Puritan clergyman, published...

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1681

Richard Baxter , Puritan clergyman, published his Breviate of the life of his wife Margaret Baxter .
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.
Feminist Companion Archive.

1670: Henry Care translated von Nettesheim's De...

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1670

Henry Care translated von Nettesheim 's De Nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus, 1529, as Female Pre-eminence; or, The Dignity and Excellency of that Sex, above the Male; this was the third English translation.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 2

By late February 2009: Saudi Arabia, where the rights of women are...

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By late February 2009

Saudi Arabia, where the rights of women are few, appointed its first female minister: Nora bint Abdullah al-Fayez became Deputy Education Minister, in charge of a new department of women's education.
Borger, Julian. “Saudi Arabia names first female mininster in reshuffle”. Guardian Weekly, 20 Feb. 2009, p. 6.
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Anne Stevenson

AS is an important contemporary poet, an heir to both the US and the British traditions. She experimented with drama and fiction early in her career. She writes fine criticism, and has edited the poems...
Anne Stevenson Photograph of Anne Stevenson, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a collared shirt, made of multicoloured velvet fabric that blends dark blue, red, and green. She is wearing wire rimmed glasses and a necklace made of copper-coloured metal, and large red stones. Her hair is jaw length and grey.

November 1905: The first exhibition of the Friday Club was...

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November 1905

The first exhibition of the Friday Club was held at the Alpine Club Gallery , London.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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April 1837: A cotton-spinners' strike took place in Glasgow....

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April 1837

A cotton-spinners' strike took place in Glasgow. This was during a run of lean years in Scotland, with famine in the Highlands.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Richards, Eric. Debating the Highland Clearances. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
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August 1885: The most powerful social purity organization,...

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August 1885

The most powerful social purity organization, the National Vigilance Association , was founded.
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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By December 2006: Yiyun Li, who grew up in Communist China...

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By December 2006

Yiyun Li , who grew up in Communist China and moved to the USA in 1996 as a graduate student in immunology, published her first book: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, written in English.
Edemariam, Aida. “Found in translation”. Guardian Weekly, 15–21 Dec. 2006, p. 25.
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