Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1984: Brenda Dean's appointment as General Secretary...
16 June 2003: A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals...
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16 June 2003
A BBC
television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.
“Poetry Society News: News Archive”. The Poetry Society, London.
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C. E. Plumptre
CEP
wrote during the later nineteenth century on religious and philosophical issues. She authored five books and many periodical essays. She was especially interested in Pantheist philosophers, deliberately seeking out and championing persecuted and obscure...
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Dervla Murphy
DM
, cosmopolitan Irishwoman, is primarily a travel writer, with more than twenty books to her credit. She excels at vivid rendering of human international contact (often made over drinks), at trenchant and well-informed...
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.
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Charlotte Smith
CS
, poet and novelist of the later eighteenth century, continued her output especially of children's books, into the very early nineteenth century. She wrote her poems for pleasure, her remarkable, now edited letters for...
Watson, James D. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. Atheneum, 1968.
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Julian, Maureen M. “Women in Crystallography”. Women of Science: Righting the Record, edited by Gabriele Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes, Indiana University Press, 1990, pp. 335-83.
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1765: The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes...
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1765
The didactic History of Little Goody Two-Shoes was published by John Newbery: the most popular children's book of its period. It had fourteen reprints before 1814.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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Fergus, Jan. “The Gothic Moan”. Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) Conference, Quebec City, QC, 10 Oct. 1998.
Wilkes, Joanne. “’Without Impropriety’: Maria Jane Jewsbury on Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
13
, 1991, pp. 33-8.
15: 3, 25
Brownstein, Rachel M. “Review of Jane Austen by Deirdre LeFaye”. JASNA News: The Newsletter of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Vol.
15
, No. 3, 1999, p. 25.
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Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols.
1: vi
10 December 1984: Mikhail Gorbachev, at this point second in...
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10 December 1984
Mikhail Gorbachev
, at this point second in command in the Soviet Union, enunciated his doctrine of glasnost, or openness.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
5 October 1942: Gilbert Murray helped found the Oxford Committee...
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Hassan, Antonia, and Chrissie Webb. “The Oxfam Archive”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
27
, No. 2, Oct. 2014, pp. 205-10.
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5 May 1911: The Conciliation Bill on suffrage, revised...
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5 May 1911
The Conciliation Bill on suffrage, revised this parliamentary session, passed its second Commons
reading by a wider majority than before: 255 for, 88 against.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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22 October 1741: Horace Walpole reported the vogue for Peg...
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22 October 1741
Horace Walpole
reported the vogue for Peg Woffington
's acting, which he thought due not to its quality but to her achievement in clawing her way up from poverty.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
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9 July 1882: The Marianne North Gallery opened at Kew...
Seddon, Laura. “Patronage and the Development of Women’s Music in the Early Twentieth Century”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 68, Women’s History Network, 2012, pp. 28-32.
Seddon 28-30
1550: Giovan Francesco Straparola published the...
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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Jane Barker
JB
, who wrote during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, shows remarkable daring and originality both as a poet and as a writer of prose fiction. Critical attention to her as a proto-feminist...
