Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1814: A Parliamentary Select Committee reported...
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1814
A Parliamentary Select Committee reported on the issue of vagrancy, as did another in 1821.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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December 1966: The Union for Democratic Control (which had...
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December 1966
The Union for Democratic Control
(which had been founded in August 1914 as an internationally minded, anti-war organization aimed at influencing British foreign policy) was wound up.
“Union of Democratic Control (1914-1966)”. Working Class Movement Library: U.D.C. pamphlets and leaflets 1914-1922.
1970-9: All states in the USA reviewed and revised...
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1970-9
All states in the USA reviewed and revised their laws, policies and procedures on rape.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
253
1 May 1840: The first adhesive postage stamps went on...
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1 May 1840
The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain in penny and twopenny denominations which bore the profile of Queen Victoria
.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
407
10 May 1954: A white American couple, the Bradens, bought...
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10 May 1954
A white American couple, the Bradens, bought a house on behalf of a black couple, the Wades, who had been rejected as purchasers in their chosen area of Louisville, Kentucky.
Culley, Margo. “The courage of their convictions”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xvii
, No. 8, May 2000, pp. 1-4.
1-4
1829: Ten novels about Ireland were published this...
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1829
Ten novels about Ireland were published this year: the largest number for any year in a decade which, with fifty-two Irish novels published, scored highest in the century so far.
Belanger, Jacqueline. “Some Preliminary Remarks on the Production and Reception of Fiction Relating to Ireland, 1800-1829”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
4
, May 2000.
Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
7
, Dec. 2001.
1947: The last horse-drawn hackney carriage ceased...
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1947
The last horse-drawn hackney carriage ceased operation in London, 308 years after the first were licensed, and many years after motor taxis had become predominant.
Jones, Thomas, editor. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, 8 Aug. 2002, p. 20.
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26 February 1993: A bomb was planted at the World Trade Center,...
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26 February 1993
A bomb was planted at the World Trade Center, tallest building in New York; Islamic terrorism was suspected.
Hardy, Roger. “How China Colluded with the West in the Rise of Osama Bin Laden”. London Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2000, pp. 26-7.
27
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
514
February 1930: Four months after the Persons Case brought...
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February 1930
Four months after the Persons Case brought before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
in England in October 1929, Cairine Wilson
became the first woman appointed to the Canadian Senate
.
“Women’s Right to Vote in Canada”. Paarliament of Canada: A to Z Index: Women, 1 Feb. 1999.
“Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson”. Library and Archives Canada: Printing and Publishing: Celebrating Women’s Achievements: First Women in Provincial and Territorial Legislatures.
By July 1955: Françoise Sagan, aged eighteen, repeated...
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By July 1955
Françoise Sagan
, aged eighteen, repeated in England the previous year's sensational success in France of her novel Bonjour Tristesse: the English version was by Irene Ash
.
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1138
Corbett, Anne. “Françoise Sagan”. The Guardian, 27 Sept. 2004, p. 23.
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Chrisafis, Angelique. “Bonjour Françoise: France in thrall to Sagan”. The Guardian, 31 May 2008, p. 25.
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Anna Letitia Waring
Anna Letitia Waring
, who published throughout the later nineteenth century and into the twentieth, was a hymn-writer, who also produced instructional tracts and poetry. Although she wrote from an early age right up until...
1903: W. E. Du Bois published The Souls of Black...
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1903
W. E. Du Bois
published The Souls of Black Folk, a study of Black life and culture in the USA, which argues that black people would never be ranked as human until their...
By 1 December 1877: Bertha Thomas published the first of her...
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By 1 December 1877
Bertha Thomas
published the first of her novels, Proud Maisie, anonymously.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2614 (1877): 696
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.
1890: As the author of Commonplace Sinners, Elinor...
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1890
As the author of Commonplace Sinners, Elinor Huddart
published her novel A Modern Milkmaid.
10 April 1732: William Hogarth began selling to subscribers...
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10 April 1732
William Hogarth
began selling to subscribers the prints of A Harlot's Progress, first of his visual narrative series of engravings done from paintings.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
73
Uglow, Jennifer S. Hogarth: A Life and A World. Faber and Faber, 1997.
211-12
1559: After a suppressed edition of 1555, there...
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1559
After a suppressed edition of 1555, there was published the anonymous A Myrroure for Magistrates: a collection of verse laments by famous men and women about how fortune brought them down in the end.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
October 1999: The worst rail disaster in Britain for many...
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October 1999
The worst rail disaster in Britain for many years happened at Ladbroke Grove, just outside Paddington Station in London.
Network Rail. http://www.railtrack.co.uk/.
Harper, Keith. “Rail users face winter of disruption”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Sept. 2001, p. 9.
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1787: The world's leading iron works opened at...
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1787
The world's leading iron works opened at the coal-mining centre of Blaenavon in South Wales; it had the longest extant tunnel and connected to the most extensive canal system.
Bruxelles, Simon de. “Church bells ring for a proud Welsh town”. Edmonton Journal, 1 Dec. 2000, p. A3.
A3
14 May 1842: The first issue of the Illustrated London...
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14 May 1842
The first issue of the Illustrated London News appeared, with a large number of illustrations and advertisements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
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Hindley, Diana, and Geoffrey Hindley. Advertising in Victorian England 1837-1901. Wayland, 1972.
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Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
146
Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopædia Britannica, 1966, 24 vols.
19: 563
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
5-6 February 1971: Provisionals (irregular republican fighters)...
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5-6 February 1971
Provisionals (irregular republican fighters) killed a British soldier on active service in Ulster.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
618
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
431
1903: Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) was identified...
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1903
Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon
) was identified as the probable source of about 1,300 cases of typhoid fever that occurred in New York.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
366
July 1803: An invasion scare gripped England. Young...
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July 1803
An invasion scare gripped England. Young men joined volunteer regiments ready for a landing and occupation by Napoleon
's troops—though at the same time people continued to plan their lives normally.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
McCarthy, Voice 460-1
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Author profile
George Egerton
GE
(born Mary Chavelita Dunne), writer of New Womanshort stories, has been called the first English writer to present female sexual drives explicitly as existing independently of and differently from male sexuality.
Bjørhovde, Gerd. Rebellious Structures. Norwegian University Press, 1987.
129-30
Her stories...
16 December 1845: The foundation-stone was laid for the Whitechapel...
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16 December 1845
The foundation-stone was laid for the Whitechapel Public Baths
in a poor area of East London, as part of the movement for public hygiene.
“The Women’s Library”. London Metropolitan University.
