Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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W. B. Yeats
WBY
, who began publishing well before the end of the nineteenth century, is regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century poets in English, and one of the most international of Irish writers. He...
29 July 1897: War broke out on the Indian frontier and...
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29 July 1897
War broke out on the Indian frontier and in the Khyber Pass, which connects Afghanistan with what is now Pakistan.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1862: The Peabody Trust was founded by George Peabody,...
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1862
The Peabody Trust
was founded by George Peabody
, with a £150,000 donation, to create affordable urban housing.
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
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Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
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Mary Ward
MW
, seventeenth-century religious reformer and founder of a religious Order, used her writings (letters, autobiography, prayers, notes, and speeches) as a means to forward her radical ecclesiastical administration. She also wrote devotional works for...
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon, 1987.
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2 July 1890: The Brussels Act for the abolition of the...
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2 July 1890
The Brussels Act for the abolition of the slave trade was signed at an international conference.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1914: The Bank of England first began issuing,...
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1914
The Bank of England
first began issuing, on instructions from the Treasury
, bank notes in a ten-shilling denomination (worth, that is, half of a pound).
Boggan, Steven. “Paper Chase”. The Guardian, 24 June 2006, pp. Weekend 21 - 6.
Weekend 22
5 June 1665: The Lord Chamberlain closed the London theatres...
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5 June 1665
The Lord Chamberlain closed the London theatres for fear of the plague.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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1855: Photographer Roger Fenton documented the...
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1855
Photographer Roger Fenton
documented the Crimean War.
Hannavy, John. Masters of Victorian Photography. David and Charles, 1976.
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13 November 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist and travel...
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
1823: The translation into English of folk tales...
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1823
The translation into English of folk tales collected by the brothers Jacob
and Wilhelm Grimm
paved the way for the development in English of this branch of children's literature.
Hirshfield, Claire. “The Actresses’ Franchise League in Peace and War: 1913-1918”. New England Theatre Journal, Vol.
5
, 1994, pp. 35-49.
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November 1919: The Woman's Outlook: a Popular Magazine devoted...
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November 1919
The Woman's Outlook: a Popular Magazine devoted to Woman's Interests in all Spheres and Phases of Life, which combined general interest, home hints, and socialist-feminist political articles, began publication in Manchester It ran until...
1 June 1887: Woman, a weekly concerned with nursing, midwifery...
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1 June 1887
Woman, a weekly concerned with nursing, midwifery and social reform, began publication in London.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992.
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Juliana Horatia Ewing
JHE
, like her mother before her, was one of the best-loved children's writers of the nineteenth century. She published stories and novels for young people, ran (jointly with her sister Horatia Katherine Frances, later Eden
1784: Henry Fearon, surgeon, published A Treatise...
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1784
Henry Fearon
, surgeon, published A Treatise on Cancers, with a New and Successful Method of Operating, Particularly in Cancers of the Breast and Testis.
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.
Porter, Roy, editor. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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1826-7: William Blake published his last work as...
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1826-7
William Blake
published his last work as an engraver: illustrations to Dante
's Divine Comedy.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW
once commented that her career in writing was an accidental one, as her initial career was in musicology. However, she was very prolific for more than fifty years of the twentieth century over a...
1927: The design of bicycles for women changed...
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1927
The design of bicycles for women changed as a response to changes in women's clothing: from voluminous skirts to split skirts or slacks.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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January 1789: In France Emmanuel Sieyès published an immensely...
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January 1789
In FranceEmmanuel Sieyès
published an immensely influential pamphlet, whose title in English is What is the Third Estate?
Runciman, David. “Shockingly Worldly”. London Review of Books, 23 Oct. 2003, pp. 7-10.
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1843: Tight-lacing à la paresseuse was introduced...
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1843
Tight-lacing à la paresseuse was introduced in France; instead of having to be re-inserted at each wearing, the lace remained in the corset and slipped through loops, allowing for easier adjustment of fit.
Kunzle, David. Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture in the West. Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.
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Summer 2005: An installation by Giancarlo Neri entitled...
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Summer 2005
An installation by Giancarlo Neri
entitled The Writer was erected on Hampstead Heath. It takes the form of a gigantic, empty table and chair, which the sculptor calls a monument to the loneliness of...
![Oval-framed portrait of Mary Ward. She is wearing a smooth white cap that covers her whole head, and dark clothing with a white collar. An inscription mostly in Latin, with a single German word, reads above the picture "Institut Beatae Mariae Virginis" and below "Gründerin [Founder] Maria Ward 1585-1645."](/system/files/styles/thumbnail_285x198/private/orlando-2-0-c-modelling/entities/entries/wardm2/images/orlando_45a4b43a-7ec5-4b9d-a037-f0648caa7f15.jpg?h=3436bf8a&itok=DVNewgpU)
