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November 1854: Tsar Nicholas I of Russia accepted the Four...

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November 1854

Tsar Nicholas I of Russia accepted the Four Points proposed by Austria in the Crimean War.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
207, 208

Sybille Bedford

SB was a largely twentieth-century writer who worked on the boundaries between fiction and fact. Her three initial novels (which create fictional characters partly from people in Bedford's own family or circle, and which evoke...

1877: J. Mortimer Granville contributed five chapters...

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1877

J. Mortimer Granville contributed five chapters to The Borderlands of Insanity, an attempt to categorize insanity and to identify borderland areas of the mind, where deviance and eccentricity lurked.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
105-6, 266

1869: The intellectual Oxford magazine Academy...

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1869

The intellectual Oxford magazine Academy began publication, founded by Charles Appleton .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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1 June 1889: The first issue of the New Review was published...

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1 June 1889

The first issue of the New Review was published by Archibald Grove .
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 303
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 303

31 December 1923: The chimes of Big Ben were first broadcast...

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31 December 1923

The chimes of Big Ben were first broadcast on the BBC to usher in the New Year.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237

September 1854: The British landed in Crimea, unopposed by...

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September 1854

The British landed in Crimea, unopposed by the Russians they had come to make war with. They went on to lay siege to Sebastopol that October and to win important victories at Balaklava (25...

17 June 1783: Sir Cecil Wray, a maverick independent politician...

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17 June 1783

Sir Cecil Wray , a maverick independent politician and reformer, presented in the House of Commons a Quaker petition for the abolition of slavery.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Cecil Wray

24 September 2001: US author Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections...

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24 September 2001

US author Jonathan Franzen 's novel The Corrections was named as a selection by Oprah Winfrey in Oprah's Book Club . He caused a furore by declining to participate.
“The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen”. The Complete Review.

2 May 1742: Lady Euston, formerly Lady Dorothy Boyle,...

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2 May 1742

Lady Euston , formerly Lady Dorothy Boyle , died of her husband's ill-treatment within seven months of her wedding.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
1: 112; 2: 41

1858: The Ladies' Treasury, a monthly periodical,...

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1858

The Ladies' Treasury, a monthly periodical, began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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1873: The Plymouth Ladies' Committee, a Contagious...

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1873

The PlymouthLadies' Committee , a Contagious Diseases Acts repeal group, published Caroline Nicholson 's What I Saw at the Royal Albert Hospital.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
165

Sarah Macnaughtan

Sarah Macnaughtan began her writing career in 1894 with a short story in the London magazine Temple Bar, and published her first novel in 1898. She went on to publish further short stories and...

9 June 1812: The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister...

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9 June 1812

The Earl of Liverpool became Prime Minister following the assassination of Spencer Perceval .
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
202
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Barrell, John. “Shoot first, ask questions later”. The Guardian, 12 May 2012, p. Review 6.
Review 6

1913: Cranach Presse was established in Weimar...

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1913

Cranach Presse was established in Weimar by Count Harry Kessler .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
172
Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
169

1904-1912: Romain Rolland published Jean-Christophe...

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1904-1912

Romain Rolland published Jean-Christophe in fifteen parts in Cahiers de la quinzaine.
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.

Judith Man

JM became a translator at eighteen, and published her work soon afterwards, in 1640.

3 June 1723-17 February 1724: Philip, Duke of Wharton, published a Jacobite...

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3 June 1723-17 February 1724

Philip, Duke of Wharton , published a Jacobite periodical entitled True Briton, until the government suppressed it.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
145 and n19

Susan Ferrier

SF was a conservative early nineteenth-century novelist of Edinburgh manners, who builds her novels out of acute observation, wit, moralising, and literary quotation.
Susan Ferrier Engraving of Susan Ferrier based on the half-length portrait by Robert Thorburn, 1836. She looks straight forward, wearing a huge lacy bonnet and a large, lacy collar or neckerchief over a dress in shiny fabric. She has a pocket watch on a long chain. A glimpse of landscape is visible behind.

1815-22: Jean Lamarck's Histoire naturelle des animaux...

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1815-22

Jean Lamarck 's Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres (Natural History of Invertebrates), published over these years, was the first work to distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates.
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.
282
Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
353, 360
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

15 August 1761: While negotiations were in progress to end...

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15 August 1761

While negotiations were in progress to end what was later called the Seven Years' War, the Bourbon kings (of France and Spain) entered the Family Compact, which provided in a secret clause...

15 October 1874: James Stansfeld gave a speech at Bristol...

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15 October 1874

James Stansfeld gave a speech at Bristol strongly in favour of the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
117
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
97
Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
117
Butler, Josephine. Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade. Hyperion Press, 1989.
68

1911: The Royal College of Surgeons admitted its...

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1911

The Royal College of Surgeons admitted its first woman, Eleanor Davies-Colley , who later founded the South London Hospital for Women and Children .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Dorothy Osborne

DO , widely known as a writer of love-letters, has been more admired by romantics than by feminists. She can be a sharply comic and often satirical observer of social custom and individual idiosyncrasy, as...
Dorothy Osborne Photograph of a painting of Dorothy Osborne (after her marriage, as Lady Temple) by Caspar Netscher, 1671. She is seated, with her elbow on the arm of her chair and her head resting on that hand. Against a background of figured black and gold drapery, she wears a dark gold dress with voluminous skirt and sleeves, clasped in front, with white linen at the full wrists and the neckline. She has a double string of pearls, and more pearls wrapped in her dark hair, loosely piled up hair. National Portrait Gallery

1970: The Boston Women's Health Book Collective...

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1970

The Boston Women's Health Book Collective published Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Gamble, Vanessa Northington. “Taking back our bodies”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xix
, No. 12, Sept. 2002, p. 8.
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Tuana, Nancy. “Coming to Understand: Orgasm and the Epistemology of Ignorance”. Sex and Gender: Rethinking Feminist Philosophy Conference, Edmonton, AB, 18 Oct. 2002.