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13 April 1864: A weekly women's newspaper entitled the Young...

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13 April 1864

A weekly women's newspaper entitled the Young Ladies' Journal began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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10 April 1710: An Act for the Encouragement of Learning...

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10 April 1710

An Act for the Encouragement of Learning (later called the Copyright Act), passed in 1709, became effective.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Sutherland, James. Defoe. Methuen, 1937.
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Aemilia Lanyer

AL is an important poet, technically sophisticated and powerfully expressive. Her single known work is a composite volume dated 1611, which handles religious narrative (expanded from the gospel story), theological and feminist argument, natural description...
Aemilia Lanyer Photograph of a miniature painting of Aemilia Lanyer by Nicholas Hilliard, shown from the shoulders up, wearing a white gown with gold and black lacing, white and black beaded necklaces, and a broad lace ruff that fills most of the oval portrait. Her dark curly hair is pulled back by a low crown of white and black beads and gold.

Lady Anne Barnard

LAB , in her twenties a notable contributor to the Scots ballad revival, became during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a memoirist, political letter-writer, diarist, and travel-writer, as well as a fine illustrator.
Lady Anne Barnard Black and white photo of a miniature of Lady Anne Barnard. She sits writing with a quill on a sheet of paper, but pauses to look up and to her right with a half-smile. She wears a loose open jacket over a white high-necked blouse, and a large, soft hat in several dark and white layers, with dark feathers on top. Her hair, too, is dark.

Sarah Tytler

Henrietta Keddie, who wrote under the pen name ST , was a prolific Scottish author who aimed at a predominantly female audience. Over her nearly sixty-year publishing career she produced more than one novel a...

January 1792: A number of black people embarked at Halifax,...

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January 1792

A number of black people embarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia, heading for Sierra Leone, where they arrived (on a ship captained by John Clarkson , brother of the abolitionist) two months later.
Falconbridge, Anna Maria, and Mary Ann Parker. Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies. Editor Coleman, Deirdre, Leicester University Press, 1999.
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By 24 November 1888: Margaret Hungerford, still writing under...

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By 24 November 1888

Margaret Hungerford , still writing under her former married name of Margaret Argles, published Under-Currents, another successful novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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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.

2 May 1923: Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield...

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2 May 1923

Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield and the Women's Advisory Committee , the BBC 's radio programme Women's Hour began its two-year run.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1960: Elaine Morgan and Jean Scott Rogers published...

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1960

Elaine Morgan and Jean Scott Rogers published their Welsh-language play Teli'r Teulu.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

25 September 1808: Novelist Captain Philip Meadows Taylor was...

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25 September 1808

Novelist Captain Philip Meadows Taylor was born in Liverpool.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

1836: The University of London was founded, in...

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1836

The University of London was founded, in effect extending university education substantially in the provinces and colonies.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth, editor. The University of London and the World of Learning 1836-1986. Hambledon Press, 1990.
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March 1917: British troops invading Ottoman territory,...

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March 1917

British troops invading Ottoman territory, having suffered defeat at Kut the previous spring, succeeded in capturing Baghdad.
Glass, Charles. “Iraq Must Go!”. London Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2002, pp. 12-13.
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1794: Sophia, Lady Burrell (with a play and a poetry...

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1794

Sophia, Lady Burrell (with a play and a poetry volume behind her, and further plays and a novel ahead), published her most unusual work, The Thymbriad, an epyllion based on Xenophon 's Cyropaedia.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
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Sarah Lewis, 1824 - 1880

Sarah Anna Lewis was a mid-nineteenth-century American poet who is today better known for her association with Edgar Allan Poe than for her writings. She began her career with frequent periodical publications, then published four...

28 September 1677: During another difficult season at Drury...

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28 September 1677

During another difficult season at Drury Lane Theatre , the manager extracted an agreement from the actors that they would not perform for any other company.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
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10 August 1911: The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords,...

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10 August 1911

The Parliament Act passed the House of Lords , bringing about some curtailment in that body's powers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Asquith

June-November 1800: Arthur Young made a tour through East Anglia...

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June-November 1800

Arthur Young made a tour through East Anglia and several Southern counties.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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1866: Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Pu...

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1866

Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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From 1933: The flow of refugees from Germany to Britain...

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From 1933

The flow of refugees from Germany to Britain began; by 1939 about 56,000 people, including more than ten thousand children, had arrived from old and new German territories including Czechoslovakia.
Lively, Penelope. A House Unlocked. Penguin, 2002.
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1285: A statute set the penalty for raping a woman...

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1285

A statute set the penalty for raping a woman married maid or other at death, or branding on the hand for those claiming benefit of clergy.
Schwarz, Joan I. “Eighteenth-Century Abduction Law and Clarissa”. Clarissa and Her Readers, edited by Carol Houlihan Flynn and Edward Copeland, AMS Press, 1999, pp. 269-08.
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Benefit of clergy, designed to protect churchmen...

October 1981: Anwar Sadat, Prime Minister of Egypt, was...

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October 1981

Anwar Sadat , Prime Minister of Egypt, was assassinated by an Islamic-supremacist army officer, who said of his act, I shot the Pharaoh.
Shlaim, Avi. “A History of Disappointment”. London Review of Books, 22 June 2000, pp. 18-19.
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April 1946: The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford...

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April 1946

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , Stratford upon Avon, was reopened by Sir Barry Jackson with a performance of Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare produced by Peter Brook .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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January 1894: James Tochatti edited the first issue of...

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January 1894

James Tochatti edited the first issue of Liberty, A Journal of Anarchist Communism, published in London.
Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Granada, 1978.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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September 1938: The Woman's National Newspaper began publishing...

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September 1938

The Woman's National Newspaper began publishing in London; it had claimed to be the first independent newspaper in the world owned and controlled entirely by women.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1 January 1901: New Zealand joined the Imperial Penny Postage...

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1 January 1901

New Zealand joined the Imperial Penny Postage system.
Staff, Frank. The Penny Post, 1680-1918. Lutterworth Press, 1964.
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