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1865: In this year, the Governesses' Benevolent...

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1865

In this year, the Governesses' Benevolent Society disbursed £16,882 to needy, ill, and elderly governesses.
Greenwell, Dora. Essays. A. Strahan, 1866.
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May 1913: Humanity, a magazine devoted to the emancipation...

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May 1913

Humanity, a magazine devoted to the emancipation of the sweated female worker, began publication in London.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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27 June 1789: Louis XVI ordered the First and Second Estates...

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27 June 1789

Louis XVI ordered the First and Second Estates (nobility and clergy) to sit with the Third Estate in the French National Assembly.
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
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10 May 1844: The Midland Railway emerged from the amalgamation...

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10 May 1844

The Midland Railway emerged from the amalgamation of the Birmingham and Derby Junction , the Midland Counties , and the North Midland lines.
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
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Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
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April 1880: The last issue of the New Quarterly Magazine...

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April 1880

The last issue of the New Quarterly Magazine was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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1889: William Morris published his prose romance...

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1889

William Morris published his prose romance A Tale of the House of the Wolfings.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1824: John Lizars of Edinburgh performed the first...

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1824

John Lizars of Edinburgh performed the first ovariotomy in Britain; it was later discovered that the patient had been misdiagnosed and the operation was unnecessary.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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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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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Dictionary of American Biography. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929–2026, 1-20.

30 August 1889: The British Railways Act went into effec...

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30 August 1889

The British Railways Act went into effect.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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By mid-August 1927: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov published his seminal...

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By mid-August 1927

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov published his seminal study Conditioned Reflexes.
Gleitman, Henry et al. Psychology. 6th ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.
125-127, B66
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(18 August 1927): 562

1769: Edward Bancroft published his Essay on the...

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1769

Edward Bancroft published his Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, which includes arguments for the moral justification of slavery.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Late 1638: Milton's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared...

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Late 1638

Milton 's pastoral elegy Lycidas appeared in a volume of Cambridge poems published in memory of Edward King , who had died by drowning.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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1854: The British government created an Educational...

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1854

The British government created an Educational Dispatch which was sent to India, proposing financial support for missionary schools as long as they agreed to adhere to British modes of schooling and government inspection.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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Anna Akhmatova

Writing through the turmoils of the twentieth century, AA (Anna of all the Russias as she was solemnly called by her fellow poet Marina Tsvetaeva ) was one of the greatest poets of Russian...
Anna Akhmatova Photograph of a painted portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1922. She is shown from the shoulders up, at a three-quarter turn, against a blue background which incorporates another, sketched figure behind her in similar shades of blue.

Eliza Ogilvy

EO is mainly recognized as a poet who wrote sometimes innovative lyrics on a wide range of topics from experiences of motherhood to contemporary politics. Beginning in the 1840s, she published five volumes of poetry...
Eliza Ogilvy Reproduction of painted portrait of Eliza Ogilvy by George Frederick Watts, 1886. Her face is in profile and the background is a murky mixture of yellow, blue, and grey tones. She is wearing a brown coat and has her caramel coloured hair secured with a thin brown headband.

Summer 1874: Watercolourist Helen (Paterson) Allingham...

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Summer 1874

Watercolourist Helen (Paterson) Allingham gained the recognition of the London artistic establishment after two of her paintings were selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Taylor, Ina. Helen Allingham’s England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life. Penguin, 1990.
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Cherry, Deborah. Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists. Routledge, 1993.
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1931: Margaret Llewelyn Davies edited a collection...

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1931

Margaret Llewelyn Davies edited a collection of reminiscences about the Women's Co-operative Guild (WCG) entitled Life as We Have Known It.
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.
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Woolf, Virginia, and Anna Davin. Life as We Have Known It, by Co-operative Working Women. Editor Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, Reprint ed., Virago, 1977.
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By May 1619: The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed...

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By May 1619

The Calvinist Synod of Dort in Holland confirmed the doctrine of total human depravity, setting it at the head of their articles of doctrine.
Synod of Dort. http://www.ccel.org/creeds/canons-of-dort.html.

Catherine Marsh

Catherine Marsh was always an avid writer since she was a small child, and first tried, unsuccessfully, to publish her writing (a romance) in the autumn of her twelfth year.
O’Rorke, Lucy. The Life and Friendships of Catherine Marsh. Longmans, Green & Co., 1917.
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Her first successful publication,...
Catherine Marsh The second and third pages of a letter from Catherine Marsh to Miss Saunders. Marsh explains that she has a great "horror of unnecessary publicity," and never speaks in the presence of clergymen. She makes her only exception for "Evangelists", among whom on the last page she counts herself a humble member -- and among whom, presumably, were the young men she was soon to address. Hilda Londry Collection.

9 June 1983: Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party,...

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9 June 1983

Michael Foot , leader of the Labour Party , signally failed in the general election to shake the reign of Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . He was soon afterwards replaced as party leader by...

5 October 1978: The Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis...

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5 October 1978

The Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer (who emigrated to the USA in 1935 but continued to write mainly in Yiddish) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
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30 November 1966: Barbados became independent within the C...

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30 November 1966

Barbados became independent within the Commonwealth.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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1916: St Dominic's Press was founded at Ditchling,...

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1916

St Dominic's Press was founded at Ditchling, Sussex, by Hilary Pepler .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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August 1907: A World Exhibition was held in Dublin; among...

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August 1907

A World Exhibition was held in Dublin; among other things on display was the novelty of incubators for premature babies.
O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
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Sophia Hume

SH was a leading Quaker pamphleteer of the mid eighteenth century. She published religious and moral exhortations, an anthology, and a diatribe against smallpox inoculation, in England and America.

1873: The Plymouth Ladies' Committee, a Contagious...

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1873

The PlymouthLadies' Committee , a Contagious Diseases Acts repeal group, published Caroline Nicholson 's What I Saw at the Royal Albert Hospital.
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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Walkowitz, Judith R. Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State. Cambridge University Press, 1980.
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