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12-13 May 1891: Anti-European riots at Wuhu, China, damaged...

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12-13 May 1891

Anti-European riots at Wuhu, China, damaged the British consulate.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 786

28 August 1814: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, novelist, short...

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28 August 1814

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu , novelist, short story writer and journalist, was born at Dublin.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Mid-January 1694: John Dryden's last play, the tragedy Love...

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Mid-January 1694

John Dryden 's last play, the tragedy Love Triumphant, was performed at Drury Lane ; it was printed the same year.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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.

1868: Mary Abigail Dodge published Woman's Wrongs:...

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1868

Mary Abigail Dodge published Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant in Boston under the name of Mary Hamilton.
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994.
359
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.

December 1914: Sinn Féin, the newspaper organized in 1906...

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December 1914

Sinn Féin, the newspaper organized in 1906 by Arthur Griffith as a vehicle of the Irish nationalist group Sinn Féin , was suppressed.
Hickey, D. J., and J. E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History From 1800. Gill and Macmillan, 2003.
446

Thomas Otway

1883: Charles Henry Olive Daniel's Daniel Press...

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1883

Charles Henry Olive Daniel 's Daniel Press offered its first book for sale.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 123-4

Lucy Boston

Best known for her children's books situated in a magical house, Green Knowe, Lucy Boston published, during the later twentieth century, twelve of these in all. She also wrote memoirs, two adult novels, and poetry.

2 February 1844: The Ray Society, London, was founded to publish...

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2 February 1844

The Ray Society , London, was founded to publish original works of natural history, zoology, and botany.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
394
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
64
Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
III: 604

1924: Michael Arlen (writing name of Dikran Kuyumjian)...

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1924

Michael Arlen (writing name of Dikran Kuyumjian ) published The Green Hat. A Romance for A Few People.
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.

Charlotte Lennox

CL wrote during the eighteenth century, in every genre: poetry, fiction, translation, drama, a periodical, and scholarship. Yet she found it hard to make a living. Current interest in The Female Quixote still tends unjustly...
Charlotte Lennox Title-page of Charlotte Lennox's famous novel "The Female Quixote", 1752, vol. 1.

1903: Woman's World began publication in Londo...

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1903

Woman's World began publication in London.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

16 October 1750-April 1753: Christopher Smart and John Newbery, under...

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16 October 1750-April 1753

Christopher Smart and John Newbery , under the persona of Mary Midnight, issued a periodical entitled The Midwife; or, Old Woman's Magazine; they acknowledge the influence of Delarivier Manley .
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
43
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
249n56, 250

1970: Harper's & Queen, which began monthly publication...

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1970

Harper's & Queen, which began monthly publication in London from National Magazine , was created by a merger of Harper's Bazaar and Queen magazines.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
166
Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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Mary, Lady Chudleigh

Mary, Lady Chudleigh , was a versatile writer who began publishing during her middle age. Her poems and essays are earnest on religious topics but vividly dramatic in feminist debate. She wrote letters which were...
Mary, Lady Chudleigh Photograph of watercolour painting of Ashton House, Devon, the ancestral home of Mary Chudleigh's husband and where she spent most of her life.

By 15 August 1914: Irish suffrage organisations established...

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By 15 August 1914

Irish suffrage organisations established an emergency council to organize war-relief work while continuing to promote the cause of women's suffrage; the Irish Women's Franchise League refused to participate.
Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
279
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
97, 141n4
Luddy, Maria, editor. Women in Ireland, 1800-1918: A Documentary History. Cork University Press, 1995.
279

Early 1957: Hardship and political anxiety were caused...

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Early 1957

Hardship and political anxiety were caused in Britain by a strike of telephone and electrical workers. By 25 March, some 600,000 engineers were on strike, accompanied by 200,000 shipyard workers.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(25 March 1957): 6

July 1772: A Gentleman's Magazine review extended a...

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July 1772

A Gentleman's Magazine review extended a cautious welcome to an anonymous Plan for the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.
Basker, James G. “’The Next Insurrection’: Johnson, Race, and Rebellion”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol.
11
, 2000, pp. 37-51.
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1879: The Lancet decried the wearing of drawers...

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1879

The Lancet decried the wearing of drawers as detrimental to the health and morals of girls and women.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
188

10 December 1952: Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence...

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10 December 1952

Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge from Great Britain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research involving transuranium elements.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.

Jennifer Dawson

JD achieved an early reputation as a novelist of madness, in tune with 1960s ideas about the brilliant and eccentric visions of insanity being damped and persecuted by conformist social institutions. A friend observed that...

November 2007: The latest advance in electronic books or...

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November 2007

The latest advance in electronic books or e-books, Kindle, was launched by Jeff Bezos , CEO of the web bookseller Amazon , competing with the Sony Reader, and featuring wireless connectivity.
McCrum, Robert. “A Thriller in 10 Chapters”. The Guardian, 25 May 2008, pp. Review 6 - 8.
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17 February 1904: The opera Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini...

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17 February 1904

The opera Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini had its opening at the Scala , Milan; the Japanese heroine is ruined and betrayed by her love for the American Lieutenant Pinkerton.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
328

Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe

EPS was a diarist and letter-writer whose opportunities as an early traveller and reporter in Canada at the end of the eighteenth century have made her writing remembered.
Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe Photograph of an oval drawing of Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe by Mary Anne Burges. shown from the shoulders up, wearing a simple light brown dress with a white bib at the front , and a tall blue hat with a wide brim and a bow tied around it.