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1845: Frances Osgood published a poetry book for...

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1845

Frances Osgood published a poetry book for children, The Flower Alphabet in Gold Colours.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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21 March 1930: The Popular and Nationalist parties of Iraq...

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21 March 1930

The Popular and Nationalist parties of Iraq demonstrated against the British (whose mandate to govern the country had been supported by the League of Nations in April 1920).
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 852

Anne Plumptre

AP , Romantic-era writer, a radical in politics, produced four novels (one of them a tour de force, an epistolary novel of great power and subtlety), much translation (particularly radical plays), travel writings (including political...
Anne Plumptre Black-and-white drawing of Anne Plumptre, circa 1790. Her image is framed by an oval and she wears a dress with a frilly collar and has a rounded fabric cap through which her curls peek out.

1833: The Royal Entomological Society of London...

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1833

The Royal Entomological Society of London was founded; it admitted women on the same terms as men.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
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1930: The Ivriah School for Girls was established...

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1930

The Ivriah School for Girls was established in Manchester, increasing the opportunities for girls to be educated in the Jewish faith and culture.
Burman, Rickie. “’She Looketh Well to the Ways of Her Household’: The Changing Role of Jewish Women in Religious Life”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 234-59.
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1840: Tilt and Bogue was founded in Fleet Street,...

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1840

Tilt and Bogue was founded in Fleet Street, London, from the partnership of David Bogue and Charles Tilt .
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 57

October 1822: Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written...

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October 1822

Byron published The Vision of Judgment (written around the previous summer) in The Liberal, a journal which he and Leigh Hunt briefly published at Pisa.
Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron. “Introduction”. Byron’s Poems, edited by Vivian de Sola Pinto, J. M. Dent, 1963–1968, p. 1: v - xx.
1: xvii
Pinto gives the date as October...

Mary Ann Kelty

MAK 's first publications were novels issued in the 1820s (intelligent, pious but not totally unworldly), which had considerable success in Britain, the USA, and Continental Europe. Later the religious element became dominant in her...

29 May 1537: Pope Paul III issued a Bull that classified...

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29 May 1537

Pope Paul III issued a Bull that classified American Indians as men, not brutes.
“Sublimus Dei”. New Advent.
New Catholic Encyclopedia. McGraw-Hill, 1967, 18 vols.
under Racism

1974: The Times Literary Supplement (under the...

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1974

The Times Literary Supplement (under the editorship of John Gross ) abandoned its policy of anonymity for its contributors.
Wood, James. “Phut-Phut”. London Review of Books, 27 June 2002, pp. 11-12.
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1676: Thomas D'Urfey's comedy Madam Fickle presented...

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1676

Thomas D'Urfey 's comedy Madam Fickle presented as heroine a linguistic virtuoso, tricking and triumphing over an assortment of foolish and misogynist suitors.
Hughes, Derek. “The Masked Woman Revealed; or, the prostitute and the playwright in Aphra Behn criticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 149-64.
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31 December 1869: The Daily News published the Ladies' Protest,...

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31 December 1869

The Daily News published the Ladies' Protest, a document signed by 124 women which outlined their arguments for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau on Women. Editor Yates, Gayle Graham, Rutgers University Press, 1985.
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By 9 May 1586: The young antiquary and historian William...

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By 9 May 1586

The young antiquary and historian William Camden published the first, Latin edition of his popular and influential Britannia, an account of Britain under the Romans which drew on physical remains and place-names.
Woolf, Daniel. The Idea of History in Early Stuart England. University of Toronto Press, 1990.
116
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

November 1914: The Crayford Agreement allowed women workers...

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November 1914

The Crayford Agreement allowed women workers on repetition work only.
Braybon, Gail, and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars. Pandora, 1987.
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1759: An Excise Office survey for tax purposes...

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1759

An Excise Office survey for tax purposes of England and Wales found 141,700 retail outlets, of which 21,603 were in London.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
18, 229n55, 268n15

Elizabeth Elstob

EE is noteworthy as the first female scholar in the newly opening field of the Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) language. She was also a translator, a biographer, and a promoter of learning for women and...
Elizabeth Elstob Line engraving with portrait of Elizabeth Elstob inside an initial letter G, by Simon Gribelin, from "An English-Saxon Homily on the Birth-day of St. Gregory", 1709, which she translated from Old English. She looks towards the viewer, slightly angled to her left with her head turned to her right. She wears a dress with a low neckline, and her hair is styled with curls framing her forehead and face, while the rest hangs behind her shoulders.

Spring 1953: In the year before her death, the famous...

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Spring 1953

In the year before her death, the famous and flamboyant Mexican artist Frida Kahlo held the only exhibition of her work during her lifetime in her home country.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

E. H. Young

As well as eleven middle-brow novels, published between 1910 and shortly after the Second World War and most of them fine examples of the twentieth-century domestic style, EHY wrote stories and poems printed in magazines...
E. H. Young Black and white, head and shoulders photograph of E. H. Young by Howard Coster, 1932. She is in semi-profile, wearing a skullcap-like hat, fur-collared coat, gloves, and a double string of pearls. National Portrait Gallery.

1956: Alice Stewart and others published in the...

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1956

Alice Stewart and others published in the Lancet a ground-breaking study linking childhood cancers with the use of X-rays on pregnant women.
Oakley, Ann. Telling the Truth about Jerusalem. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
49 and n83

1813: The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society for...

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1813

The Ladies' Royal Benevolent Society for the Visiting, Relieving, and Investigating the Condition of the Poor (founded the previous year) raised £38 by holding a charity bazaar in London.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
49-50, 244

1842: Jane Loudon's Ladies' Magazine of Gardening...

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1842

Jane Loudon 's Ladies' Magazine of Gardening appeared in its first and only collected volume.
Brown, Jane. The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening. HarperCollins, 2000.
116-19
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.

1567: George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles...

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1567

George Turbervile published Heroycall Epistles (London: Henry Denham), a translation of Ovid 's Heroides.
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.
Lyne, Raphael. A Case for Isabella Whitney: Aeneas and Isabella Homepage. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/aeneas/attrib.htm.

28 May 1901: The Federation of Master Printers and Allied...

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28 May 1901

The Federation of Master Printers and Allied Trades of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland held their first official meeting.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
304, 306

June 1824: Bricklayer Joseph Aspdin, of Briggate near...

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June 1824

Bricklayer Joseph Aspdin , of Briggate near Leeds, patented cement which he called Portland cement or artificial stone.
The name came from the well-known stone quarries on the Isle of Portland in Dorset.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
79-80
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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1 January 1999: In the countries of the European Community...

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1 January 1999

In the countries of the European Community (except Britain) traditional currencies were replaced by the common currency of the euro.
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.