Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Gertrude Thimelby
GT
was a Roman Catholic poet of the mid seventeenth century with a powerful individual voice, dealing with the themes of family love, bereavement, and religious devotion. Her surviving poems number only nineteen.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
: A party of soldiers were landed at Roanoke...
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Summer 1585
A party of soldiers were landed at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, to form the earliest English North American settlement. The demoralised survivors were picked up by Francis Drake
just a year later and...
7 June 1934: Sir Oswald Mosley, former Member of Parliament...
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7 June 1934
Sir Oswald Mosley
, former Member of Parliament and founder of the British Union of Fascists
(1932), spoke at a demonstration at Olympia Hall, London, attended by 15,000 people.
Bishop, James. Marching to War, 1933-1935. Editor Gilbert, Martin, Bracken Books, 1989.
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Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
146
After March 1848: The Austrian nationalist uprising was overthrown...
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After March 1848
The Austrian nationalist uprising was overthrown by General Radetzky
.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
125
1582: Thomas Bentley edited The Monument of Matrones,...
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1582
Thomas Bentley
edited The Monument of Matrones, an important anthology containing writings by women, mostly religious.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Horton, Louise. “’Restore Me That Am Lost’: Recovering the Forgotten History of Lady Abergavenny’s Prayers”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
26
, No. 1, Feb. 2019, pp. 3-14.
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26 October 1918: Religious and temperance philanthropist Agnes...
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26 October 1918
Religious and temperance philanthropist Agnes Weston
was given burial with full naval honours—a very rare distinction for a woman.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
315
“Agnes Weston: Information Sheet No. 43”. Royal Naval Museum: Collections: Research Collections: Information Service: Information Sheets.
1 December 1870: Sir Samuel Baker left Khartoum to suppress...
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1 December 1870
Sir Samuel Baker
left Khartoum to suppress the slave trade in the Upper Nile region.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 584
3 May 1915: The League of Nations Society was founded...
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3 May 1915
The League of Nations Society
was founded in London to study proposals to create a league of nations.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
245
1935: Isabel Grant established the Highland Folk...
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1935
Isabel Grant
established the Highland Folk Life collection to preserve and record disappearing traditional Scottish culture.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
334
Before August 1953: Alfred Kinsey followed his Sexual Behavior...
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Before August 1953
Alfred Kinsey
followed his Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 1948, with a second, equally controversial Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
52714 (31 August 1953): 2
1810: Alexander Chalmers published an influential...
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1810
Alexander Chalmers
published an influential anthology, Works of the British Poets, in 21 volumes.
Eger, Elizabeth. “Fashioning a Female Canon: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and the Politics of the Anthology”. Women’s Poetry in the Enlightenment, The Making of a Canon 1730-1820, edited by Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain, St Martin’s Press, 1998, pp. 201-15.
207
8 February 1967: Victor Gollancz died, and his publishing...
December 1671: The Rehearsal, containing Buckingham's merciless...
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December 1671
The Rehearsal, containing Buckingham
's merciless satirical portrait of Dryden
, finally reached the stage.
Polwhele, Elizabeth. “Introduction: A ’Lost’ Play and its Context”. The Frolicks, edited by Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, Cornell University Press, 1977, pp. 13-49.
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12 June 1742: An advertisement for the Rev. Samuel Fancourt's...
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12 June 1742
An advertisement for the Rev. Samuel Fancourt
's Proposals for Erecting a Public Circulating Library in London is the first recorded use in English of the term circulating library.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.
1927: Victor Gollancz established his own publishing...
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1927
Victor Gollancz
established his own publishing house at 14 Henrietta Street, London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
179
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
201
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
127
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
340
8 February 1828: Novelist Jules Verne was born in Nantes in...
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8 February 1828
Novelist Jules Verne
was born in Nantes in France.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
123
July 1855: The first issue of the National Review was...
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July 1855
The first issue of the National Review was published; it became the most celebrated Unitarian periodical and one of the most illustrious quarterlies of the century.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 144
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 135-7, 142, 144, 147
30 June-11 August 1902: The Colonial Conference met in London, and...
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30 June-11 August 1902
The Colonial Conference met in London, and decided to meet again every four years.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
16 August 1845-29 May 1846: Frederick Douglass, ex-slave and anti-slavery...
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16 August 1845-29 May 1846
Frederick Douglass
, ex-slave and anti-slavery campaigner, visited Britain: Ireland, Scotland, and England.
Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Slave and Citizen: The Life of Frederick Douglass. Little, Brown, 1980.
24, 28, 35
Douglass, Frederick. Frederick Douglass on Women’s Rights. Editor Foner, Philip S., Greenwood Press, 1976.
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Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
191
19 April 1775: The first shot of the American War of Independence...
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19 April 1775
The first shot of the American War of Independence was fired at the village of Lexington, near Concord, Massachusetts.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. Tea Party to Independence: The Third Phase of the American Revolution, 1773-1776. Clarendon, 1991.
227, 228
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
560
As early as 1885: Octavia Hill gave evidence to the Royal Commission...
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As early as 1885
Octavia Hill
gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes.
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
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Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
383, 385-7
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
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Jacob Burckhardt
1918-1938: Louisa Emily (Emma) Lomax held the position...
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
xxvii, 286
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Lydia Maria Child
LMC
, nineteenth-century American woman of letters, published novels, children's books, domestic-advice books, newspaper articles and columns in the form of letters, as well as biography, controversial works against slavery, a remarkable history of world...
