Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Julia Stretton
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published both children's books and adult novels during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Her final novel comments amusingly and astutely on gender relations and the writing of novels.
early 1880s: Lamson's cash balls, a system for the movement...
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early 1880s
Lamson's cash balls, a system for the movement of cash around different departments of retail shops, were invented.
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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10 December 1922: Sir Archibald Vivian Hill from Great Britain...
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10 December 1922
Sir Archibald Vivian Hill
from Great Britain and Otto Fritz Meyerhof
were jointly awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and muscular...
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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Lawrence, Elizabeth. Gender and Trade Unions. Taylor and Francis, 1994.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Mary MacArthur
1975: This year was designated International Women's...
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1975
This year was designated International Women's Year, though the intiative of Helvi Sipila
of the United Nations
.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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Greer, Germaine. The Madwoman’s Underclothes. Picador, 1987.
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Hannah More
During her long and phenomenally productive career HM
wrote plays, poems, a single novel and much social, religious, and political commentary. She was the leading conservative and Christian moralist of her day. Her political opinions...
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 247
4 August 1914: Germany invaded neutral Belgium. Britain...
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4 August 1914
Germany invaded neutral Belgium. Britain and all its Commonwealth countries declared war on Germany; President Woodrow Wilson
announced a policy of US neutrality.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.
Harding, Jeremy. “The Uninvited”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2000, pp. 3-25.
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1956: Golda Meir was appointed Israel's Minister...
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1956
Golda Meir
was appointed Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs. She served as Israel's delegate to the United Nations
from 1956 to 1966.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
359
10 December 2007: In the Christmas rush twelve years after...
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10 December 2007
In the Christmas rush twelve years after the online bookseller Amazon
was founded, it sold on this single day almost five and a half million items.
McCrum, Robert. “A Thriller in 10 Chapters”. The Guardian, 25 May 2008, pp. Review 6 - 8.
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24 December 1810: The Paris dispensary for the registering...
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24 December 1810
The Parisdispensary for the registering of prostitutes (set up by the police in 1802) was expanded; registration and medical checks were first made mandatory.
Norberg, Kathryn. “From Courtesan to Prostitute: Mercenary Sex and Venereal Disease 1730-1802”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 34-50.
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1849: Rebecca Smith was the last woman to be hanged...
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1849
Rebecca Smith
was the last woman to be hanged for infanticide.
Smith, Roger. Trial by Medicine: Insanity and Responsibility in Victorian Trials. Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
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Before 29 June 1613: Henry VIII, by Shakespeare (probably with...
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Before 29 June 1613
Henry VIII, by Shakespeare
(probably with the collaboration of Fletcher
), had its first performance: when it was acted on this date, a fire broke out which destroyed the Globe Theatre
.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
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8 April 1886: The first Irish Home Rule bill was proposed...
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8 April 1886
The first Irish Home Rule bill was proposed and defeated.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
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Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
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June 1852: Protestant rioters in Stockport plundered...
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June 1852
Protestant rioters in Stockport plundered and desecrated two Roman Catholic chapels.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
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29 June 1868: A bill introduced in the House of Lords proposed...
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29 June 1868
A bill introduced in the House of Lords
proposed extending the Contagious Diseases Acts to London, and any other borough that chose to follow.
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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1871: Prominent psychiatrist and physician G. Fielding...
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1871
Prominent psychiatrist and physician G. Fielding Blandford
theorized about the prevalence of female insanity in Insanity and Its Treatment.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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August 1914: On a day during this month at Henry Wood's...
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August 1914
On a day during this month at Henry Wood
's Promenade Concerts
, the usual Monday night Wagner
concert was cancelled as a result of the outbreak of war, and replaced with works by British...
31 October 1902: The first message travelled over the completed...
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31 October 1902
The first message travelled over the completed Pacific Cable from Canada to Australia.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 493
1650: The Polish astronomer Maria Cunitz, sometimes...
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1650
The Polish astronomer Maria Cunitz
, sometimes called the second Hypatia, published her Urania Propitia, which builds on the work of Johannes Kepler
.
Mulvihill, Margaret E. “Old Books / New Editions. Part III of III. New Work on Margaret Cavendish’s ‘The Blazing World’ (1666; 2016)”. Rare Book Hub, Dec. 2016.
1 August 1944: The battered Polish resistance movement mobilised...
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1 August 1944
The battered Polish resistance movement mobilised 40,000 armed insurgents against the Nazi occupiers of Warsaw (which was the final obstacle between the advancing Red Army and Berlin).
MacQueen, Angus. “Stuck in the middle of great-power games”. Guardian Weekly, 27 Nov. 2003, p. 16.
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Marghanita Laski
ML
, a cultural force in twentieth-century Britain, published six novels, four biographies (one on multiple subjects), an anti-nuclear play, a collection of children's stories, three quasi-scientific investigations into secular and religious experiences, and various...
