Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Laurence Hope
LH
, a writer of exotic, Orientalist love lyrics, published three volumes of immensely successful poetry in the early twentieth century. They remained popular for a number of years after her death. Favourites among...
July 1975: The illustrious Cornhill Magazine ceased...
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July 1975
The illustrious Cornhill Magazine ceased publication after a hundred and fifteen years in print.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
1886: Furneaux Jordan argued in Character as Seen...
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1886
Furneaux Jordan
argued in Character as Seen in Body and Parentage that certain women had physical characteristics that literally drove men to abuse them or even murder them.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
107, 266n24
1 April 1941: With the Second World War more than eighteen...
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1 April 1941
With the Second World War more than eighteen months old and the USA still neutral, Lillian Hellman
's drama The Watch on the Rhine opened on Broadway.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
1 April 2008
1 January 1991: The Press Complaints Commission, successor...
JC
, poet of the twentieth century and later, calls herself a blend of several nationalities (South African, British, and Canadian) and of many identities. She is a feminist anthologist as well as a poet...
March 1941: The German Nazi Party forbade dairies to...
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March 1941
The GermanNazi Party
forbade dairies to deliver milk to Jews on their milk rounds.
This information comes from the diaries of Victor Klemperer
, first published in 2000.
Powers, Thomas. “’A Thousand Mosquito Bites’”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 3-7.
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17 July 1798: Radical publisher Joseph Johnson stood trial...
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17 July 1798
Radical publisher Joseph Johnson
stood trial for publishing the allegedly seditious Reply to Some Parts of the Bishop of Llandaff's Address.
Waters, Mary A. “’The First of a New Genus’: Mary Wollstonecraft as Literary Critic and Mentor to Mary Hays”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
37
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 2004, pp. 415-34.
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Mavis Gallant
Canadian-born Mavis Gallant
lived most of her life in Paris, where she wrote hundreds of short stories, two novels, essays, diaries, and a play during the mid to late twentieth century. Her work, which often...
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
280
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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Just before 15 May 1738: Captain Robert Jenkins displayed to the House...
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Just before 15 May 1738
Captain Robert Jenkins
displayed to the House of Commons
(as an incentive to declaring war against Spain) his severed ear.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1870: The Bazar Book of Decorum described how some...
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1870
The Bazar Book of Decorum described how some women maintained modesty at the dinner table by secretly practising what is now termed binge eating, a component of bulimia nervosa.
Michie, Helena. The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women’s Bodies. Oxford University Press, 1987.
17, 20, 153
1841: American Charles Thomas Jackson discovered...
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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Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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July 1969: Mary Douglas published another influential...
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July 1969
Mary Douglas
published another influential work of social anthropology, Natural Symbols.
Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
102-4
2 August 1869: The Endowed Schools Act effected educational...
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2 August 1869
The Endowed Schools Act effected educational reform and improved funding for girls' schooling.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
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Curtis, Stanley James. History of Education in Great Britain. Seventh, University Tutorial Press, 1967.
169-71
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
275-80
Kamm, Josephine. Indicative Past: A Hundred Years of The Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Allen and Unwin, 1971.
30-1
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
statutes
July 1917: The Women's Land Army was established in...
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July 1917
The Women's Land Army
was established in order to supply a workforce for agricultural and related work.
Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
101, 88
5 May 1914: The House of Lords voted down a suffrage...
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5 May 1914
The House of Lords
voted down a suffrage bill which would give votes to women who were on the municipal register.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
201-202
1 July 1890: The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System...
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1 July 1890
The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System began processing data for the American census. This first mechanized census took five years less processing time than the census of 1880.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and William Aspray. Computer. Basic Books, 1996.
21, 23, 26
1928: Artist Pearl Binder held a one-person exhibition...
