Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1798: The Annual Register Chronicle announced the...
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1798
The Annual Register Chronicle announced the invention, by a Frenchman and a German, of the printing process known as stereotype or stereotyping.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.
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.
By November 1700: The recently founded SPCK opened a charity...
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By November 1700
The recently founded SPCK
opened a charity school for forty girls at St Andrew's in Holborn, where a boys' school had opened early in the year. Subscribers included Sarah, Lady Cowper
for three pounds...
Early 1975: Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company was founded...
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Early 1975
Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company
was founded as a result of plans by a London co-operative community arts resource centre, Inter-Action
, for a season of gay plays to follow their successful women's season.
“Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company”. AIM25: Royal Holloway College, University of London.
July-October 1859: Charles Reade's historical sensation novel...
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July-October 1859
Charles Reade
's historical sensation novel The Cloister and the Hearth was serialised as A Good Fight in Once A Week.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
133, 523
By late May 1903: Samuel Butler's autobiographical novel The...
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By late May 1903
Samuel Butler
's autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh was posthumously published.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
By 1815: The number of capital crimes in Britain reached...
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By 1815
The number of capital crimes in Britain reached about 225 separate offences: up by at least sixty over the last fifty years, after rising steeply even before that.
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering our Past. Encounter Books, 2000.
165
By 8 June 1725: The criminal Jonathan Wild was hanged: Daniel...
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By 8 June 1725
The criminal Jonathan Wild
was hanged: Daniel Defoe
wrote a hasty account of his life, and eighteen years later Henry Fielding
made him a mock-heroic over-reacher.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe, edited by Michael F. Shugrue, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968, p. v - xxvi.
xxii
McDowell, Paula. “Narrative Authority, Critical Complicity: The Case of Jonathan WildStudies in the Novel, Vol.
30
, No. 2, 1 June 1998–2026, pp. 211-31.
225
The date is that of Defoe's catchpenny biography.
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Lady Eleanor Douglas
The known tracts and prophecies of LED
(formerly Davies), published during the long political crisis of the mid seventeenth century, numbered at last count 69 extant texts and 77 including those which have apparently not...
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Hesba Stretton
HS
was a prolific writer, who during the later nineteenth century produced nearly sixty works of fiction for children and adults, several works of non-fiction, and numerous contributions to a variety of different periodicals. Renowned...
14 July 1698: The ships of the Company of Scotland, projectors...
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14 July 1698
The ships of the Company of Scotland
, projectors of the Darien Scheme, sailed out of Leith heading for Darien on the Panama isthmus, intending to found a profitable colony.
Ascherson, Neal. “Cape of Mad Hope”. London Review of Books, 3 Jan. 2008, pp. 24-6.
24-5
1 January 1894: The Manchester Ship Canal began operatio...
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1 January 1894
The Manchester Ship Canal began operation.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
139
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
321
1858: The innovative Female Mission to the Fallen...
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
189
December 1958: Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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December 1958
Boris Pasternak
was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature. He initially accepted the prize, but was quickly forced by the Soviet government to decline it.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
July 1796: The explorer Mungo Park, abandoned and anxious...
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July 1796
The explorer Mungo Park
, abandoned and anxious on the banks of the Niger River in what is now Mali, was taken in, housed and fed by African village women, who composed and sang...
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Ann Taylor Gilbert
ATG
, her next sister and two brothers, wrote and published seventy-three books. The first and most famous title appeared in 1804-5. Most of these works were collaboratively authored in various combinations. They were mainly...
19 January 1850: A series of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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19 January 1850
A series of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
was published under the title Representative Men.
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.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1160 (19 January 1850): 68-9
March 1664: George Etherege's first play, The Comical...
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March 1664
George Etherege
's first play, The Comical Revenge, or Love in a Tub, opened on stage.
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.
1838: American physician Isaac Ray published A...
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1838
American physician Isaac Ray
published A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity.
Walker, Nigel. Crime and Insanity in England. Edinburgh University Press, 1968.
89
By 31 August 1878: The future Margaret Hungerford published...
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By 31 August 1878
The future Margaret Hungerford
published Molly Bawn (probably then and later her best-known novel), writing as Margaret Argles in the year that her first husband, Edward Argles
, died.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2653 (1878): 271
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke, 1890.
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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.
11 January 1943: A British treaty with China renounced the...
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11 January 1943
A British treaty with China renounced the UK's extra-territorial rights and special privileges there.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
586
1822: St David's Theological College, Lampeter,...
