Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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21 April 1876: It was discovered that Charles Bravo died...
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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Walkowitz, Judith R. City of Dreadful Delight. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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6 November 1817: Princess Charlotte died at 2.30 a.m. after...
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6 November 1817
Princess Charlotte
died at 2.30 a.m. after delivering a stillborn son. Poor clinical judgement was to blame; intense national mourning and controversy followed.
Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III and the Mad-Business. Allen Lane, 1969.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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8 February 1587: Mary Queen of Scots was executed at Fotheringay...
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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March 1939: Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, despite the...
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March 1939
Hitler
invaded Czechoslovakia, despite the assurances he had given at Munich in September 1938 about respecting its integrity.
“World War Two: Timeline”. History on the Net: History Topics: War and Conflict.
Cohen, Susan. “Women’s History Month: Eleanor Rathbone”. Women’s History Network Blog, 25 Mar. 2010.
Beginning of May 1762: When a prostitute was charged with soliciting...
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Beginning of May 1762
When a prostitute was charged with soliciting in Fleet Street, London, a local tradesman spoke of her honorable character before the court, and was willing to stand surety for her to the amount of...
Autumn 1609: The astronomer Galileo Galilei, using a telescope...
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Autumn 1609
The astronomer Galileo Galilei
, using a telescope of his own invention in his garden at Padua, first observed the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, and mountains on the moon.
Radford, Tim. “Light fantastic at the end of the universe”. Guardian Weekly, 1 Mar. 2000, p. 19.
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Sobel, Dava. Galileo’s Daughter. Viking, 1999.
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From September 1939: The Digging for Victory campaigns were launched...
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From September 1939
The Digging for Victory campaigns were launched at the very outset of war.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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Briggs, Susan. Keep Smiling Through. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
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Earlier 1855: Charles Kingsley published his novel Westward...
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Earlier 1855
Charles Kingsley
published his novel Westward Ho!; Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight . . . in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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1838: Coachmakers Robinson and Cook built, for...
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1838
Coachmakers Robinson and Cook built, for Lord Brougham
, a vehicle in a new style, the first brougham.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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9 October 1899: The first motor bus appeared in London s...
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9 October 1899
The first motor bus appeared in London streets.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Lydia Becker
LB
first established herself in the mid nineteenth century as a popularizer of scientific knowledge and a proponent of women's scientific education. She is best known for her work on the Women's Suffrage Journal...
Late 1874: The National Medical Association was formed...
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Late 1874
The National Medical Association
was formed in Liverpool to organize support among the medical community for 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.
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Dorothy Sidney, Countess of Sunderland
While Dorothy, Countess of Sunderland
, has been known historically as the Sacharissa of Edmund Waller
's poetry, she was also a respected and memorable letter writer. Most of her surviving letters date from her...
25 April 1719: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Life...
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25 April 1719
Daniel Defoe
anonymously published The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a novel with elements of spiritual autobiography.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Defoe, Daniel. “Introduction”. Robinson Crusoe, edited by John J. Richetti, Penguin, 2001, p. ix - xxxiv.
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9 August 1848: Captain Frederick Marryat, novelist and father...
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
145, 148
Early June 1945: About fifty pictures returned to the National...
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Early June 1945
About fifty pictures returned to the National Gallery in London from the disused slate mine in North Wales where they had been sheltered for the duration of the war.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Melesina Trench
MT
, an Anglo-Irishwoman writing from the later eighteenth century and publishing from the early nineteenth, was in one way a typical upper-class amateur writer, whose output was mostly diaries and letters, published after her...
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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1908: The Central Committee for Women's Church...
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1908
The Central Committee for Women's Church Work
was established as a result of the Pan-Anglican Congress, where the need for ongoing representation of women's ministries had been made evident by deaconesses and their supporters.
Prelinger, Catherine M. “The Female Diaconate in the Anglican Church: What Kind of Ministry for Women?”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana UP, 1986, pp. 161-92.
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Grierson, Janet. The Deaconess. CIO Publishing, 1981.
