Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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7 June 2012: US journalist Katherine Boo, who has made...
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7 June 2012
US journalist Katherine Boo
, who has made poverty her special subject, published her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Samuel Beckett
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, Irish expatriate poet, short-story writer, novelist, and playwright, was a major force in international twentieth-century writing and especially theatre. He wrote a high proportion of his works in French, usually doing the translations...
January 1849: Radicals ascended to power in Rome (centre...
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January 1849
Radicals ascended to power in Rome (centre of the Papal States) and established a Roman Republic.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Lettice Cooper
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's writing career spans both sides of the Second World War. Author of twenty novels which deal with human relationships as responsive to the social and cultural conditions of her day, many of them...
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, whose text was published in 1831 after she came to London from the Caribbean, became well-known as an early nineteenth-century writer of detailed slave autobiography.
1924: Una Ashworth Taylor's sketches of her family...
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1924
Una Ashworth Taylor
's sketches of her family and personal friends, including Lewis Carroll
, was titled Guests and Memories. Annals of a Seaside Villa.
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.
1857: Ellen Ranyard's employment of Bible-Women...
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1857
Ellen Ranyard
's employment of Bible-Women in charitable work was the first instance of paid social work.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1853: The Charter Act replaced patronage appointments...
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1853
The Charter Act replaced patronage appointments to the Indian Civil Service
with competitive examinations open to British subjects of all classes.
Cohen, Emmeline W. The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-1939. Archon Books, 1965, http://U of G.
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21 May 1855: The Civil Service Commission was established...
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21 May 1855
The Civil Service Commission
was established in response to public pressure to put an end to political appointments, or what the Administrative Reform Association
called those influences which at present burden every department of Government...
1776: Maria Maddelena Morelli, or Corilla Olimpica,...
Dixon, Susan M. “Women in Arcadia”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1999, pp. 371-5.
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4 March 1974: Labour having come first past the post in...
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4 March 1974
Labour
having come first past the post in the general election of 28 February, Harold Wilson
formed his second government (a minority one), replacing ConservativeEdward Heath
as Prime Minister.
Young, Toby. “What U.S. needs is a Queen”. Edmonton Journal, 1 Dec. 2000, p. A17.
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Spufford, Francis. “Love that Bird”. London Review of Books, 6 June 2002, pp. 28-33.
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1 May-31 October 1893: More than 27 million people from around the...
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1 May-31 October 1893
More than 27 million people from around the world came to see the exhibits and the wide variety of scientific, artistic and technological wonders on display at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
“Chicago 1893”. ExpoMuseum.
1-3 August 1798: In the Battle of the Nile (also known as...
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1-3 August 1798
In the Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir (or Abu Qir) Bay), the British fleet
under Nelson
attacked and in large part destroyed the fleet of revolutionary France.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Nelson
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
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Macleod, Emma Vincent. “A city invincible? Edinburgh and the war against Revolutionary France”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 153-66.
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June 1942: The Jewish diarist Victor Klemperer, in Dresden,...
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June 1942
The Jewish diarist Victor Klemperer
, in Dresden, recorded that every day some German gentile would reassure him that the German war effort was crumbling.
Powers, Thomas. “’A Thousand Mosquito Bites’”. London Review of Books, 21 Sept. 2000, pp. 3-7.
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1932: The Religious Tract Society renamed its publishing...
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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Around 1866: In the Sheffield outrages, skilled workers...
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Around 1866
In the Sheffield outrages, skilled workers throughout the country defended their jobs against machine workers.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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11 May 1963: The Committee of 100 (a disarmament group...
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11 May 1963
The Committee of 100
(a disarmament group with which Pat Arrowsmith
was associated, offshoot of CND
) held a demonstration at the RAF
base at Marham in Norfolk.
Committee of 100. Mail Interception and Telephone Tapping in Britain. Hampstead Group, Committee of 100 and Housmans Bookshop, 1965.
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1828: The Tower of London armouries opened. These...
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1828
The Tower of London armouries opened. These displays of medieval armor and weapons attracted up to 40,000 visitors a year after the opening, indicating the extent of the interest in the Middle Ages.
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
By April 1795: A Letter to the Right Honourable William...
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By April 1795
A Letter to the Right Honourable William Pitt
, on the Use of Hair-Powder argued that in times of scarcity flour ought to be reserved for food, not used for cosmetic purposes.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2d ser. 13 (1795): 453
1925: George Warner privately published Venus in...
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.
7 May 1919: The League of Nations assigned Samoa as mandated...
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7 May 1919
The League of Nations
assigned Samoa as mandated territory to New Zealand.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 945
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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26 April 1797: The Gentleman's Magazine listed the anticipated...
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26 April 1797
The Gentleman's Magazine listed the anticipated revenue from a modification in Advertising Duty as twenty thousand pounds: the duty was set this year at three shillings.
