Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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20 November 1934: Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, a...
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20 November 1934
Lillian Hellman
's The Children's Hour, a play in which schoolgirls accuse teachers of having a lesbian relationship, opened on Broadway, New York.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
20 November 2008
1859: The Jewish Board of Guardians was established...
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1859
The Jewish Board of Guardians
was established to coordinate the activities of Jewish charities in England.
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
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January 1918: The Church Militant, an Anglican feminist...
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January 1918
The Church Militant, an Anglican feminist monthly campaigning for the ordination of women, began.
1773: An Act was passed for erecting more mile-posts...
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1773
An Act was passed for erecting more mile-posts and signposts.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
282
17 June 1775: A battle was fought at Bunker Hill, just...
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17 June 1775
A battle was fought at Bunker Hill, just south of Boston.
Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
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Clara Balfour
Clara Balfour
, like many Victorians, wrote prolifically on the subject of temperance, arguing its importance for a healthy society. Her other works often had theological or anti-socialist aims. Her works include moral and didactic...
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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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...
1646: Sir John Suckling's poetry volume Fragmenta...
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1646
Sir John Suckling
's poetry volume Fragmenta Aurea (Golden Fragments) appeared in print five years after his death.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
28 October 1726: Cloaking himself, with a great deal of obfuscation,...
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28 October 1726
Cloaking himself, with a great deal of obfuscation, as Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Swift
published Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (better known as Gulliver's Travels).
Hunting, Robert. Jonathan Swift. Twayne, 1967.
May 1839-February 1840: Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq.,...
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May 1839-February 1840
Under the pseudonym of Ikey Solomons, Esq., junior, William Makepeace Thackeray
published Catherine, a novel satirising the Newgate school of crime fiction, in serial form in Fraser's Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
1846: Heinrich Völter purchased Keller 's patent...
About 730: The exquisite Kentish Vespasian Psalter was...
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About 730
The exquisite Kentish Vespasian Psalter was transcribed and decorated, perhaps by nuns at Minster-in-Thanet. The abbess there, Eadburh
, later known as Saint Eadburh
, remains somewhat obscure.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Brown, Michelle P. “Writing in the Insular world”. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, edited by Richard Gameson, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 121-66.
1811-53: The French Biographie Universelle appeared...
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1811-53
The French Biographie Universelle appeared in 53 volumes, covering an international range of subjects: on this George Smith
first modelled, in 1882, his plan for an English Dictionary of National Biography.
Holland, Peter. “Sidney Lee as Biographer of Shakespeare”. Early Modern Lives: Biography and Autobiography, Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Conference, London, 27 June 2002.
1 November 1856: Britain declared war on Persia, which had...
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1 November 1856
Britain declared war on Persia, which had occupied Herat in Afghanistan; this began the Anglo-Persian War.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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May 1839: The New Zealand Company was founded with...
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May 1839
The New Zealand Company
was founded with the purpose of colonizing New Zealand.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
939-40
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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February 1689: Mary of Modena wrote to Pope Innocent XI...
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February 1689
Mary of Modena
wrote to Pope Innocent XI
asking him to lead an alliance of the Catholic rulers of Europe to restore her husband
as rightful and Catholic ruler of Britain.
Finch, Anne. “Introduction / Editors’ Note”. The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems: A Critical Edition, edited by Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant, University of Georgia Press, 1998, p. xv - l.
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18 August 1823: A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara,...
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18 August 1823
A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara, partly as a consequence of the hostility of local authorities to the activities which the Church Missionary Society
was undertaking among slaves.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
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Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
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da Costa, Emilia Viotti. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Oxford University Press, 1994.
1821: In the Australian convict colony at Parramatta,...
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1821
In the Australian convict colony at Parramatta, a Factory was opened to house unemployed transported women.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
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Smith, Babette. A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal. New South Wales University Press, 1988.
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1969: The National Health Service allowed birth...
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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1794-1802: With engravings by N. Heideloff, the Gallery...
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1794-1802
With engravings by N. Heideloff
, the Gallery of Fashion appeared monthly, featuring hand-coloured aquatints of current fashions.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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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.
22 November 1658: Cromwell the Protector had a funeral procession...
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22 November 1658
Cromwell
the Protector had a funeral procession across London, lying in effigie in royal robes . . . like a king.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
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1934: The boys' paper Chums, launched in 1892,...
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1934
The boys' paper Chums, launched in 1892, ceased publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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29 June 1855: The first number appeared of Daily Telegraph...
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29 June 1855
The first number appeared of Daily Telegraph and Courier, a newspaper which as the Daily Telegraph is still published in London in the twenty-first century.
