Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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25 September 1992: Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who was convicted in...
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25 September 1992
Kiranjit Ahluwalia
, who was convicted in December 1989 of murdering her violently abusive husband, was released on appeal following a campaign by Southall Black Sisters
, a London Asian feminist group.
Bindel, Julie. “I wanted him to stop hurting me”. Guardian Unlimited, 4 Apr. 2007.
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Amber Reeves
AR
, who began publishing shortly before the First World War, produced three clear-eyed and unsentimental novels about the predicament of the modern woman (including the difficulty of reconciling her sexuality with the social world)...
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Georgette Heyer
GH
was prolific in historical, mostly Regency, romances. She also wrote modern novels (which, however, she later suppressed as unsatisfactory to her), essays, and short stories, and published eleven detective novels written in collaboration with...
10 January 1840: The national penny post was introduced, drastically...
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10 January 1840
The national penny post was introduced, drastically reducing the cost of and greatly improving postal service.
Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader. 2nd ed., Ohio State University Press, 1998.
380
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Editorial Materials”. The Brownings’ Correspondence, edited by Philip Kelley et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2026, p. Various pages.
4: xiii
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
620
1945: The Cheltenham Festival of Contemporary British...
5 December 1726: The Opposition paper The Craftsman, by Caleb...
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5 December 1726
The Opposition paper The Craftsman, by Caleb Danvers (Lord Bolingbroke
and others) published its first number.
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.
1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...
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1 July 2007
British publisher Tank Books
released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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1950: Woman's Friend ended publication in Lond...
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1950
Woman's Friend ended publication in London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
97
Dancyger, Irene. A World of Women: An Illustrated History of Women’s Magazines. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
142
By September 1843: Women's Rights and Duties Considered with...
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By September 1843
Women's Rights and Duties Considered with Relation to Their Influence on Society and Her Own Condition by A Woman argued for very limited rights for women.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
55
28 December 1915: Members of the British military held a meeting...
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28 December 1915
Members of the British military held a meeting with the intention of giving a name to the newly-invented military tank (so far called a machine-gun destroyer, a centipede, and Mother). It was named by Colonel Ernest Swinton
February 1916: The Suffragette News Sheet began monthly...
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February 1916
The Suffragette News Sheet began monthly publication in London.
September 1936: Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, edited in Chicago...
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September 1936
Poetry, A Magazine of Verse, edited in Chicago by Harriet Monroe
, ceased publication under her editorship.
Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press, 1987.
277
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.
Kirsch, Adam. “Poetry Magazine’s Rebirth”. New York Sun, 20 Dec. 2005.
1866: The Cabinet photograph, 6 by 4 inches, was...
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1866
The Cabinet photograph, 6 by 4 inches, was introduced; it often depicted professional beauties.
Barwick, Sandra. A Century of Style. Allen and Unwin, 1984.
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23 August 1927: Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola...
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23 August 1927
Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
, were executed amid international furore for shooting dead a paymaster and a security guard outside a factory at South Braintree.
Cole, David. “Radical Aliens”. London Review of Books, Vol.
31
, No. 20, 22 Oct. 2009, pp. 26-7.
26-7
23 June 1925: British troops fired into striking crowds...
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23 June 1925
British troops fired into striking crowds in Canton, killing fifty-two people and wounding a hundred and seventeen; this followed an incident in Shanghai on 30 May 1925, which left nine people dead and twenty...
By June 1762: Arthur Murphy anonymously published An Enquiry...
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By June 1762
Arthur Murphy
anonymously published An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
175
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
54-5
15 March 1916: An amendment to Japan's nationality law allowed...
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15 March 1916
An amendment to Japan's nationality law allowed for the expatriation of Japanese born abroad; Japanese women marrying aliens were to lose their citizenship.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 863
1880: Henry Vizetelly founded Vizetelly and Company...
