Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Explore Orlando
Here, you’ll find randomized material from across the textbase’s author profiles and timelines. To jump to the content of your choice, click on its image card.
1969: Jane Arden's culturally radical Vagina Rex...
Women writers item
1969
Jane Arden
's culturally radical Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven was produced by Drury Lane Arts Lab
. The first British play to spring from the Women's Liberation Movement, it was published in 1971.
Barclay, Katie. email to the Women’s History Network. 9 Oct. 2009.
22 August 1748: The nuns of the Bar Convent at York were...
Building and people item
22 August 1748
The nuns of the Bar Convent
at York were issued with notice to quit by this date, in conformity with the anti-Catholic penal laws, by York cathedral cleric Dr Jacques Sterne
.
Kirkus, Sister M. Gregory. The Archives of the Bar Convent, York, UK.
19-20
September 1752: The Monthly Review reported that London publishers...
Building and people item
September 1752
The Monthly Review reported that London publishers had been terrified with the fear of a prosecution from printing Abraham Payba
's case against two Members of Parliament.
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
7: 232
4 or 6 October 1809: Spencer Perceval assumed office as Prime...
National or international item
4 or 6 October 1809
Spencer Perceval
assumed office as Prime Minister. He was a Tory, an Evangelical, and an abolitionist, strongly committed to the war against France.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
114
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
Barrell, John. “Shoot first, ask questions later”. The Guardian, 12 May 2012, p. Review 6.
Review 6
11 May 1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot...
National or international item
11 May 1812
Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons
in London by a Liverpool merchant, John Bellingham
, who had been ruined in the course of trade with Russia...
1 March 1932: The twenty-month-old son of US aviator Charles...
Building and people item
1 March 1932
The twenty-month-old son of US aviator Charles A. Lindbergh
(famous for making the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight on 20-21 May 1927) was kidnapped.
“Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Kidnapping, March 1, 1932”. Charles Lindbergh, An American Aviator: Kidnapping.
By 28 June 1884: Ida Ashworth Taylor (the middle one of three...
Women writers item
By 28 June 1884
Ida Ashworth Taylor
(the middle one of three novelist sisters born at East Sheen in Surrey) published her first work: Venus' Doves, a romance.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2957 (1884): 820
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.
Around 1842: Joseph Récamier of France redesigned the...
Building and people item
Around 1842
Joseph Récamier
of France redesigned the curette for evacuating the womb of fungal growth or afterbirth.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
139
Hindell, Keith, and Madeleine Simms. Abortion Law Reformed. Peter Owen, 1971.
43
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
43
1904: The National Peace Council was established...
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
By October 1808: Thomas Clarkson published his History of...
Building and people item
By October 1808
Thomas Clarkson
published his History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade, by the British Parliament (abolition dated from 1 May 1807).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
1972: The English football team, captained by Rachel...
Building and people item
1972
The English football team, captained by Rachel Heyhoe Flint
, won the first Women's World Cup.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
18 November 2017: A group of poets and academics calling itself...
Building and people item
18 November 2017
A group of poets and academics calling itself FIRED!
, formed to protest the absence of women from the new Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, held its first event, at an arts centre in Belfast.
Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon. Jan. 2018, http://awomanpoetspledge.com/about-us/.
September 1965: Lucy Cavendish College was legally established...
Building and people item
September 1965
Lucy Cavendish College
was legally established as a college for women graduate students and teachers at Cambridge University.
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1593
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
505
Little, Bryan. The Colleges of Cambridge, 1286-1973. Adams and Dart, 1973.
160-1
1786: An anonymous Country Farmer published an...
Building and people item
1786
An anonymous Country Farmer published an analysis of the lives of farmers and farmers' wives before and after enclosure.
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
23 and n26
1667: The first of two London Building Acts after...
Building and people item
1667
The first of two London Building Acts after on the Great Fire (the second followed in 1670) were a landmark in the regulating of urban construction. Their primary purpose was safety: wooden buildings were prohibited...
1654: According to historian Patricia Crawford,...
Building and people item
1654
According to historian Patricia Crawford
, this year saw the last known instance of a woman voting (at Bristol) in a parliamentary election before the twentieth century.
Crawford, Patricia. “Public Duty, Conscience, and Women in Early Modern England”. Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England, edited by John Morrill et al., Clarendon Press, 1993, pp. 57-76.
65
10 April 1998: The Good Friday Agreement, a peace agreement...
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
60
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1379 (1 April 1854): 411-2
31 March 1920: The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished...
Building and people item
31 March 1920
The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished the Anglican Church
in Wales, came into effect.
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins, 1984, 3 vols.
348
Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
188
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
347, 359
17 July 1959: While her husband Louis was in bed with the...
National or international item
17 July 1959
While her husband Louis
was in bed with the flu, Mary Leakey
discovered the 1.75-million-year-old skull of australopithicus boisei, better known as Nutcracker Man, in Olduvai (or properly Oldubai) Gorge, Tanzania.
Europeans wrongly...
1904: Madame Paul Lebaudy became the first woman...
National or international item
1904
Madame Paul Lebaudy
became the first woman to fly as a passenger in a dirigible airship.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
158
15 September 1941: Zyklon B gas (Hydrogen Cyanide) was first...
National or international item
15 September 1941
Zyklon B gas (Hydrogen Cyanide) was first used to execute prisoners (who at this date were not Jews but Soviet prisoners of war) at Auschwitz.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
96
Laqueur, Thomas. “Devoted to Terror”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 18, 24 Sept. 2015, pp. 9-16.
14
May 1915: The Women's Social and Political Union launched...
17 March 1677: Nathaniel Lee's tragedy The Rival Queens...
Writer or writing item
17 March 1677
Nathaniel Lee
's tragedy The Rival Queens opened on stage.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
