Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Jane Anger
JA
may have been an actual woman; or the text that was published in this name in 1589 may have been written by a man. There is no doubt of the interest and value of...
1899: The Church Congress included a session on...
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1899
The Church Congress
included a session on The Training and Payment of Women Church Workers,
Heeney, Brian. “The Beginnings of Church Feminism: Women and the Councils of the Church of England, 1897-1919”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 260-84.
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chaired by Louise Creighton
, an active feminist and wife of the Bishop of London.
Heeney, Brian. “The Beginnings of Church Feminism: Women and the Councils of the Church of England, 1897-1919”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 260-84.
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20 July 1993: The Sexual Offences Act abolished the legal...
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20 July 1993
The Sexual Offences Act abolished the legal presumption in England and Wales that a boy under fourteen years old was incapable of sexual intercourse, whether natural or unnatural.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1993): 1243
August 1925: Sean O'Casey submitted to the Abbey Theatre,...
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August 1925
Sean O'Casey
submitted to the Abbey Theatre
, Dublin, the first and only play to deal with the topic of the Easter Rising of 1916: The Plough and the Stars.
Tóibín, Colm. “After I am hanged my portrait will be interesting”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 7, 31 Mar. 2016, pp. 11-23.
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June 1852: The National Charter Association was discredited...
AC
, labouring-class poet of the late eighteenth century, was first noticed as a writer when her local clergyman gave charity to her needy family at Christmas and she wrote him a poem of thanks...
31 December 1865: Fredrika Bremer, author and activist for...
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31 December 1865
Fredrika Bremer
, author and activist for women's rights, died in Årsta, Sweden.
Bremer, Fredrika, and Fredrika Bremer. “Biography”. Life, Letters, and Posthumous Works of Fredrika Bremer, edited by Charlotte Bremer et al., translated by. Frederick Milow, Emily Nonnen, Hurd and Houghton, 1868, pp. 1-100.
August-September 1846: William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Rebecca...
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
80
4 May 1896: Alfred Harmsworth, later Lord Northcliffe,...
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4 May 1896
Alfred Harmsworth
, later Lord Northcliffe, launched a halfpenny newspaper entitled the Daily Mail: the first mass-circulation daily paper, it was destined to a long run.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
165
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
21 April 1869: The Metaphysical Society was founded; women...
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
190
5 February 1836: The children's writer Dorothy Kilner died...
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5 February 1836
The children's writer Dorothy Kilner
died at Stratford near London; she and her sister-in-law, Mary Ann Kilner
(1753-1831), published their anonymous, undated works through John Marshall
from the 1770s.
Yonge, Charlotte, editor. A Storehouse of Stories. Macmillan, 1870–1872, 2 vols.
1: vii-ix
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.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
58 (1784): 319
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1870s: By this date, newspapers and periodicals...
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1870s
By this date, newspapers and periodicals were regularly accepting advertisements for female hygiene products such as Southall's Sanitary Towels.
Hindley, Diana, and Geoffrey Hindley. Advertising in Victorian England 1837-1901. Wayland, 1972.
Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. Studio Vista, 1970.
115
June 1940: Lord Beaverbrook appealed for scrap metal;...
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June 1940
Lord Beaverbrook
appealed for scrap metal; women were encouraged to show their patriotism by donating their pots, kettles, pram wheels, and other metal household objects.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
chronology, 149
Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.
293-4
Briggs, Susan. Keep Smiling Through. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
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July 1874: The Women's Advocate, considered Ireland's...
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July 1874
The Women's Advocate, considered Ireland's first feminist paper, ceased publication in Dublin.
14 June 1949: The United States launched a monkey in a...
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14 June 1949
The United States launched a monkey in a rocket.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
254-5
1980: About 300,000 students were attending 44...
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1980
About 300,000 students were attending 44 British universities: numbers had almost trebled in twenty years, and were to double again with the re-classification of the polytechnics as universities in 1992.
Collini, Stefan. “HiEdBiz”. London Review of Books, 6 Nov. 2003, pp. 3-9.
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21 April 1967: In Greece a military junta seized power in...
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21 April 1967
In Greece a military junta seized power in a coup later known as the Colonels' Revolution.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
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15 March 1773: Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer...
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15 March 1773
Oliver Goldsmith
's She Stoops to Conquer (second of his two comedies) had its first performance.
26 July 1968: The British Standard Time Act decreed the...
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26 July 1968
The British Standard Time Act decreed the extension of what had formerly been called Summer Time or Daylight Savings (one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time or GMT) for the entire year in Britain.
Myers, Joseph. “History of legal time in Britain”. SRCF (Student-Run Computing Facility).
1904: Madame C. de Broutelles founded the Prix...
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1904
Madame C. de Broutelles
founded the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, a prestigious French literary prize awarded by a jury of twelve women. A. Mary F. Robinson
(an English writer living in France) was a co-founder.
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1777: Richard Samuel engraved his Nine Living Muses...
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1777
Richard Samuel
engraved his Nine Living Muses of Great Britain (or Portraits in the Character of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo) for Johnson's Ladies New and Polite Pocket Memorandum for 1778...
