Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1961: The Royal Technical College of East Africa...
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
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Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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4 August 1940: Italy launched an invasion of British Somaliland...
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4 August 1940
Italy launched an invasion of British Somaliland from Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia).
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
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By 3 March 1470: Sir Thomas Malory, a political prisoner in...
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By 3 March 1470
Sir Thomas Malory
, a political prisoner in London, most probably in the Tower, finished compiling and writing his collection of legendary Arthurian
romances, Le Morte d'Arthur.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
March 1700: John Dryden published his last work: a volume...
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March 1700
John Dryden
published his last work: a volume of translations and imitations, Fables, Ancient and Modern.
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.
2 February 1785: The recently imposed window-tax (not the...
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2 February 1785
The recently imposed window-tax (not the first, but the most notorious tax of this kind) provoked the publication of an ironic mock sermon about it.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
59 (1785): 154
21 March 1853: The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed...
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21 March 1853
The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold
addressed to Arthur Hugh Clough
a classically misogynist letter about women writers, their works and their looks.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 March 2008
1835: The Strand was widened in order to facilitate...
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1835
The Strand was widened in order to facilitate the flow of carriage traffic.
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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September 1781: The slave ship Zong left Africa for Jamaica...
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September 1781
The slave ship Zong left Africa for Jamaica loaded with people captured to be sold into slavery, even more of whom than usual were doomed to die on the voyage.
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
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By early December 1984: The term cyberspace was coined in William...
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By early December 1984
The term cyberspace was coined in William Gibson
's novel Neuromancer.
Moschovitis, Christos et al. History of the Internet. ABC-CLIO, 1999.
1609: The Vagrancy Act set out to control rogues,...
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1609
The Vagrancy Act set out to control rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars (prostitutes, in particular). This was the first in a long series of such Acts.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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October 1510: Giorgione, painter of the Venetian school,...
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October 1510
Giorgione
, painter of the Venetian school, died in Venice of the plague, still in his thirties.
June 1967: The last remaining law in the USA which prohibited...
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June 1967
The last remaining law in the USA which prohibited interracial marriage (operative in the State of Virginia) was struck down by the US Supreme Court
in the case of Loving v. Virginia.
Trimberger, E. Kay. “For better or worse”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xviii
, No. 7, Apr. 2001, pp. 21-2.
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After 2 March 1791: Following the death of John Wesley, the Methodists...
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After 2 March 1791
Following the death of John Wesley
, the Methodists
extended the circuit system throughout Britain as an alternative to the parish system used by the Established Church
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Writer or writing
Author profile
Anne Bacon
AB
, one of the famously well-educated Cooke sisters, was a major Tudor translator of religious and religious-administrative texts, as well as a letter-writer. Her work was published in the mid-sixteenth century.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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Author profile
Jessie Ellen Cadell
The publishing career of JEC
, scholar and novelist, opened in 1876, less than a decade before the end of her short life. Her single identified critical essay and one of her novels appeared during...
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
June-November 1800: Arthur Young made a tour through East Anglia...
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June-November 1800
Arthur Young
made a tour through East Anglia and several Southern counties.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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3 August 1710: The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and...
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3 August 1710
The Examiner, or, Remarks upon Papers and Occurrences was launched by Jonathan Swift
with the express intention of examining and correcting false statements from other periodicals; it ran until 1716
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
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1730s: In this decade poetry became the genre in...
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1730s
In this decade poetry became the genre in which greatest numbers of women embarked on the publication or circulation of their writings.
Stanton, Judith Phillips. “Statistical Profile of Women Writing in English from 1660 to 1800”. Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, edited by Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 247-54.
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30 November 1939: The Soviet Union, professing concern over...
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30 November 1939
The Soviet Union, professing concern over recent aggressive acts by Germany, invaded Finland when a joint military agreement between the two countries could not be reached.
