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1953: Rosalind Wade published Alys at Endon, a...

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1953

Rosalind Wade published Alys at Endon, a novel.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Mrs Alexander

Annie (French) Hector initially wrote anonymously. Later, not long before her husband died, she adapted his given name, Alexander, and wrote as Mrs Alexander.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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.
She published over forty-two novels over the second half of...
Mrs Alexander Portrait of Mrs. Alexander, shown from the waist up. She appears to be wearing a fur coat and a white bonnet.

1874: The Union of Women in Bookbinding was es...

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1874

The Union of Women in Bookbinding was established.
Levine, Philippa. Victorian Feminism 1850-1900. Hutchinson, 1987.
126

Janet Hamilton

JH was a self-taught Scots working-class poet who produced four volumes of verse and essays in the later nineteenth century. Using vivid and direct language, she treats topics ranging from problems of working-class life such...

1909: Irene Clyde published her feminist utopian...

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1909

Irene Clyde published her feminist utopian novel Beatrice the Sixteenth.
Albinski, Nan Bowman. Women’s Utopias in British and American Fiction. Routledge, 1988.
21-2 and n12

1804: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller produced...

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1804

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller produced and published Wilhelm Tell, his last completed play.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
94
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.

14 June 1913: Women's Social and Political Union supporters...

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14 June 1913

Women's Social and Political Union supporters formed a funeral procession for Emily Wilding Davison 's funeral.
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
138ff
Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.

4 April 1968: The Rev. Martin Luther King, civil rights...

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4 April 1968

The Rev. Martin Luther King , civil rights leader, was assassinated at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
560, 564
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
262
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
428
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
3 April 2008

23 February 1861: The London Pavilion opened as a music ha...

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23 February 1861

The London Pavilion opened as a music hall.
Cheshire, David F. Music Hall in Britain. David and Charles, 1974.
27
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
283

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.
150
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.

November 1955: At a time when economic orthodoxy was by...

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November 1955

At a time when economic orthodoxy was by consensus Keynes ian, a deed of trust was signed for setting up the Institute of Economic Affairs , the UK's original free-market think-tank.
“About the IEA”. IEA (Institute of Economic Affairs).
Clarke, Peter. “Knights’ Moves”. London Review of Books, 17 Mar. 2005, pp. 11-14.
11
“About the IEA”. IEA (Institute of Economic Affairs).

22 December 1963: War broke out between Turks and Greeks in...

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22 December 1963

War broke out between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus (the two ethnic groups on the island).
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
259

22 June 1775: The American Continental Congress resolved...

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22 June 1775

The American Continental Congress resolved to issue $2,000,000 in bills of credit: the first continental currency.
Coakley, Robert, and Stetson Conn. The War of the American Revolution. Center of Military History, 1975.
91

7 October 1964: A Manchester-based body seeking reform in...

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7 October 1964

A Manchester-based body seeking reform in the law on homosexuality was formally launched; in 1969 this became a national institution, the Committee (later again the Campaign) for Homosexual Equality .
“Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE)”. AIM25. British Library of Political and Economic Science.

January-December 1865: Charles Kingsley's last novel Hereward the...

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January-December 1865

Charles Kingsley 's last novel Hereward the Wake, was serialised as Hereward, The Last of the English in Good Words.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
293, 335

June 1889: Nineteenth Century published An Appeal against...

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June 1889

Nineteenth Century published An Appeal against Female Suffrage by Mary Augusta Ward , signed by 103 other women.
Ward, Mary Augusta. “An Appeal Against Female Suffrage”. Nineteenth Century, Vol.
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, June 1889, pp. 781-8.
Appeal
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.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
328

2 September 1939: The government of Eire, under Eamon De Valera,...

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2 September 1939

The government of Eire, under Eamon De Valera , declared that the country would remain neutral in the coming international conflict.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
385
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
40, 65-6
Kelly, Matthew. “Now is your chance”. London Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2006, pp. 31-2.
31-2

January 1837: The London Working Men's Association prepared...

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January 1837

The London Working Men's Association prepared a Six Point petition for submission to the House of Commons .
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
19

2 July 1841: The London and Brighton Railway opened, making...

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2 July 1841

The London and Brighton Railway opened, making use of tunnels to form a direct line instead of implementing an easier, winding route.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
28
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
123

1936: Selling, importing, or advertising any form...

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1936

Selling, importing, or advertising any form of birth-control device or method was declared illegal in Ireland.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
336

1912: Herbert Jenkins founded his own publishing...

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1912

Herbert Jenkins founded his own publishing firm in London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
173
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
60

Jane Collier

JC was a remarkably innovative and experimental prose-writer of the mid-eighteenth century. She produced one anti-conduct-book, one collaborative novel (written together with Sarah Fielding ), a remarkable commonplace-book (only recently discovered), and trenchant literary-critical comments...
Jane Collier Jane Collier's commonplace-book page 78: "Sallys and Jennys Emblem (1751) concerning the Cry", an allegory in which she and Sarah Fielding collaborate on a dressmaking project -- that is, on the experimental novel "The Cry", 1754. Hilda Londry Collection.

1855: Western Australia refused to accept any more...

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1855

Western Australia refused to accept any more transported female criminals.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
176-7, 213

April 1897: The last issue of the aesthetic quarterly...

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April 1897

The last issue of the aesthetic quarterly the The Yellow Book was published.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
685

September 1714: There was published A Collection of Queen...

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September 1714

There was published A Collection of Queen Anne 's Speeches, Messages . . . from her Accession to the Throne to her Demise.
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