Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Ann Jebb
During the last quarter of the eighteenth century AJ
was an intellectual journalist and controversialist, publishing on both theological and political topics. Most of her printed writing is epistolary, and she also wrote letters then...
By mid 1943: Famine reached frightening proportions in...
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By mid 1943
Famine reached frightening proportions in British-ruled Bengal (then a part of India).
Chisholm, Anne. Rumer Godden, A Storyteller’s Life. Pan Books, 1999.
186
1768: The second of the two leading subscribers'...
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1768
The second of the two leading subscribers' or metropolitan libraries opened in Leeds.
Raven, James. Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800. Clarendon, 1992.
128-9
Poulson, Christine. “Hidden treasures”. The Author, Vol.
cxvii
, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2006–28 Feb. 2007, pp. 145-6.
146
1665: Lillias Skene (born Lillias Gillespie in...
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1665
Lillias Skene (born Lillias Gillespie
in 1626), wife of a leading Aberdeen citizen and a recent convert to the Quakerism
, penned the first poem in a volume which she went on using till her...
October 1656: Quaker maverick James Nayler set out to demonstrate...
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October 1656
Quaker
maverick James Nayler
set out to demonstrate the spirit of Christ within him by staging an entry into Bristol riding on a donkey, as Christ had ridden into Jerusalem.
Hill, Christopher. “The World Turned Upside Down, 1975: Part I: Inspiration and Experience”. Street Corner Society: Upside Down.
4 February 1832: Robert and William Chambers began publishing...
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...
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1926
The BBC
set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.
Menand, Louis. “Slips of the Tongue”. New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2001, pp. 112-16.
116, 114
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Author profile
Alice Munro
AM
, a Canadian writer of the later twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is widely regarded as one of the leading modern practitioners of the short story form. One of her collections is alternatively titled a...
1903: W. E. Du Bois published The Souls of Black...
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1903
W. E. Du Bois
published The Souls of Black Folk, a study of Black life and culture in the USA, which argues that black people would never be ranked as human until their...
1882: In an attempt to regulate the new industry...
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1882
In an attempt to regulate the new industry of electric power distribution, an Electric Lighting Act was established; a second act was passed in 1888.
Debeir, Jean-Claude et al. In the Servitude of Power: Energy and Civilization through the Ages. Translator Barzman, John, Zed Books, 1991.
116
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
255
30 April 1971: A Public Debate on Women's Liberation was...
Wallace, Christine. Germaine Greer: Untamed Shrew. Richard Cohen Books, 1999.
182-9, 278-9
27 April 1799: The Irish poet Thomas Campbell, aged twenty-one,...
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27 April 1799
The Irish poet Thomas Campbell
, aged twenty-one, published a poem entitled The Pleasures of Hope (on the model of The Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers
, 1792).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1893: Josephine Ward, a Roman Catholic who later...
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.
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.
January 1881: Followers of the Fenian or Irish Republican...
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January 1881
Followers of the Fenian or Irish Republican Brotherhood
man O'Donovan Rossa
(who himself was in the USA) exploded a bomb in Salford, the first time a bomb had been planted in Britain to further...
1931: Margaret Llewelyn Davies edited a collection...
Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.
142n15 and n16
Woolf, Virginia, and Anna Davin. Life as We Have Known It, by Co-operative Working Women. Editor Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, Reprint ed., Virago, 1977.
prelims
1647: Abraham Cowley's The Mistress, a collection...
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1647
Abraham Cowley
's The Mistress, a collection of love-poems, was published, but not by the intention of its author.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
1: 313
1518: The College of Physicians was chartered in...
The Morning Post used a battery of Wicks composing machines supplied daily with new type from Wicks foundry
in Blackfriars Road, London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
169
1752: The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against...
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1752
The Disorderly Houses Act was directed against bawdy houses in the London area: all places of public entertainment (music, dancing, etc.) now had to be licensed by justices of the peace.
