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1997: Women members of the Royal Engineers and...

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1997

Women members of the Royal Engineers and the Royal Artillery were this year allowed to take positions at the front, although British infantry, submarine, and tank positions were still restricted to men.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1986: Soho Poly Theatre premiered a play by its...

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1986

Soho Poly Theatre premiered a play by its writer-in-residence, Melissa Murray , entitled Body Cell.
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.

15 February 1675: John Crowne's Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph...

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15 February 1675

John Crowne 's Calisto; or, The Chaste Nimph was performed at Court.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Sylvia Kantaris

With a slender output (five collections of poetry and two collaborative volumes), SK is a respected poet of the late twentieth century. Her choice of topics is bold: not only erotic love but also violent...
Sylvia Kantaris Colour photograph of Sylvia Kantaris in academic dress when she received an honorary D.Litt. from Exeter University. Her gown is red, with light blue and white in the hood, her cap black with a light blue tassel, her hair shoulder-length and blonde.

1964: Falling Star, a detective novel by Patricia...

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1964

Falling Star, a detective novel by Patricia Moyes , was published. It was translated into Finnish soon afterwards.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Nancy Cunard

NC was an early twentieth-century modernist poet, journalist, anthologist, biographer, and political activist whose life and literary career were closely intertwined. She was significant as a publisher as well as in these other roles.
Nancy Cunard Black and white photograph of Nancy Cunard. She is seated in a casual pose with elbows out, facing the camera, wearing a belted leather jacket, what looks like a cloche hat, and her trademark stack of African ivory bangles.

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.

12 May 1905: Bamford Slack introduced a women's suffrage...

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12 May 1905

Bamford Slack introduced a women's suffrage bill to the House of Commons for its second reading; but it was talked out on 2 June.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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1814: With encouragement from the Archbishop of...

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1814

With encouragement from the Archbishop of Dublin, Francis Ball returned to the Bar Convent at York (where she had been a pupil) as a novice, with the purpose of qualifying herself to improve the...

Louisa May Alcott

United States novelist LMA published during the later nineteenth century more than three hundred writings, including works for children, short stories, letters, poetry, novels, plays, sensation fiction, and journalism.Little Women, her best-known work...
Louisa May Alcott Black and white, three-quarter length photo of Louisa May Alcott by J. Notman, c. 1865. She sits by a table covered with books and writing implements, slightly turned and seen in profile. She wears a dark dress with large bow at the neck; her hair is waved and pulled back in a bun.

17 September 1954: William Golding's first novel, The Lord of...

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17 September 1954

William Golding 's first novel, The Lord of the Flies, reached print from Faber and Faber after being rejected by twenty-one other publishers.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
17 September 2009

1854: H. C. Evans's bookselling firm in Bristol...

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1854

H. C. Evans 's bookselling firm in Bristol went into partnership with Isaac Arrowsmith to form Evans and Arrowsmith .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 11

1879: The Association of Registered Medical Women...

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1879

The Association of Registered Medical Women was founded with just nine members: all the qualified medical women then in Britain. This was the birth of the Medical Women's Federation.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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“History”. Medical Women’s Federation, 2006.

April 1860: As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton...

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April 1860

As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his successful verse novel Lucile.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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19 October 1954: Britain and Egypt signed the Anglo-Egyptian...

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19 October 1954

Britain and Egypt signed the Anglo-Egyptian Suez Canal Treaty, which outlined plans for the withdrawal of British troops from the area.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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1828: Samuel Taylor Coleridge published The Wanderings...

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1828

Samuel Taylor Coleridge published The Wanderings of Cain, a poem originally written in 1798.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Wanderings of Cain. 1828.
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22 July 1822: Parliament passed Martin's Act, which rendered...

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22 July 1822

Parliament passed Martin's Act, which rendered cruelty to large domestic animals like horses and cattle illegal; the act made no provisions for the treatment of cats and dogs.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press, 1975.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

23 June 1854: Ebenezer Ward and George Lock established...

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23 June 1854

Ebenezer Ward and George Lock established the publishing house of Ward and Lock at 158 Fleet Street, London, the former premises of David Nutt .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 321

March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...

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March 1673

Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters and Roman Catholics .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under John Bunyan

2 March 1816: The publishing firm of Crosby went bankr...

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2 March 1816

The publishing firm of Crosby went bankrupt.
Caplan, Clive. “Jane Austen’s Banker Brother: Henry Thomas Austen of Austen and Co., 1801-1816”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, 1998, pp. 69-90.
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September-October 2001: Two books on corsets highlighted the controversial...

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September-October 2001

Two books on corsets highlighted the controversial nature of women's history: one saw the corset as oppressing the female body, the other as offering a range of choice to wearer and commentator alike.
Pollitt, Katha. “Our Soft-Shelled Condition”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 32-3.
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February 1968: The Tet offensive (that is, an attack on...

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February 1968

The Tet offensive (that is, an attack on US-held Saigon mounted at the lunar new year by the Vietcong ) emboldened opposition to American power across the Third World.
Anderson, Perry. “Our Man”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 9-12.
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Anderson, Perry. “Our Man”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 9-12.
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January 1924: The transatlantic review, edited by Ford...

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January 1924

The transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford , began monthly publication in Paris.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
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Marek, Jayne E. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines & Literary History. University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
171, 174

29 June 1757: The Duke of Newcastle formed his second government,...

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29 June 1757

The Duke of Newcastle formed his second government, this time a Whig coalition with William Pitt .
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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November 1933: An exhibition was held of the urban-domestic...

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November 1933

An exhibition was held of the urban-domestic paintings of modern realist Walter Sickert ; Virginia Woolf attended.
Peach, Linden. “Reading Woolfs Camden: Sickert, Urbanism and the Body in The YearsVoyages Out, Voyages Home: The Eleventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, Bangor, 14 June 2001.