Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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13 March 1840: James Young and Adrian Delcambre were granted...
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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2 September 1990: The United Nations Convention on the Rights...
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2 September 1990
The United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child came into effect, having been adopted the previous November.
“Conventions on the Rights of the Child”. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 20 Nov. 1989.
1802: The Rosetta stone, whose three-fold inscription...
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1802
The Rosetta stone, whose three-fold inscription offered the opportunity of learning to decode ancient Egyptian, was presented to the British Museum
after being captured in the Egyptian campaign the previous year.
James, Thomas Garnet Henry. “Secrets of the stone deciphered”. Guardian Weekly, 25–31 Oct. 2001, p. 16.
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15 March 1866: Lord Clarence Paget sought to extend state...
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15 March 1866
Lord Clarence Paget
sought to extend state regulation of prostitutes with the introduction in Parliament of An Act for the Better Prevention of Contagious Diseases at certain Naval and Military Stations.
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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1694: Publisher John Dunton issued The Ladies Dictionary;...
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1694
Publisher John Dunton
issued The Ladies Dictionary; Being a General Entertainment For the Fair Sex: A Work Never attempted before in English.
Dunton, John. The Ladies Dictionary. Printed for John Dunton, 1694.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
48 (2000): 98
November 1862: American Richard Jordan Gatling developed...
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
333
1850: Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory...
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1850
Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy; An Autobiography was published under the name Frank Forrest
. It was later credited to the true author, James Myles
.
Simmons, James R., editor. Factory Lives. Broadview Press, 2007.
224
1925: Wishart and Company was founded by Ernest...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
343
13 December 1800: William Godwin's five-act verse tragedy Antonio...
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13 December 1800
William Godwin
's five-act verse tragedy Antonio was performed for the first and last time at Drury Lane
. It was rejected by the audience, not with hissing but with coughing.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
184
8 October 1792: Mary Haydock, aged fifteen and newly transported...
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8 October 1792
Mary Haydock
, aged fifteen and newly transported to Sydney Cove, Australia, for trying to sell a stolen horse, wrote home to her aunt about her present unhappy situation.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
154-5
By 2 January 1858: Matthew Arnold's Merope: a Tragedy was p...
10 August 1842: Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal...
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10 August 1842
Ashley's Mines Act passed, making it illegal for women, girls, and boys under ten years old to work underground.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
265
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
Baron Ashley
, later the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, was a champion of...
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.
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12 May 1937: Composer William Walton's march Crown Imperial...
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
383
1786: The first recorded advertising agent, William...
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1786
The first recorded advertising agent, William Taylor
, announced his business in the opening issue of the Maidstone Journal.
Nevett, Terry R. Advertising in Britain: A History. Heinemann, 1982.
61-2, 64
1926: With the establishment of the World Union...
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1926
With the establishment of the World Union for Progressive Judaism
, hosted in London, liberal Judaism achieved international organizational unity.
Eliade, Mircea, and Charles J. Adams, editors. The Encyclopedia of Religion. Macmillan, 1987, 16 vols.
259
1571: John de Beauchesne published the first copybook...
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1571
John de Beauchesne
published the first copybook in English (translated from French): A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands, designed for teaching children to write.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
25 and n54
1944: Hodder and Stoughton, along with Alan Bott...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
244
Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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24 October 1944: A railway clerk named Mrs W. recorded in...
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24 October 1944
A railway clerk named Mrs W. recorded in her diary (now in the Mass-Observation
archive): I cannot write what I feel about all this evil. My soul cries out in distress. I am a Jew...
1843: Alexander Bain, a Scottish inventor, patented...
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1843
Alexander Bain
, a Scottish inventor, patented an electrochemical recording telegraph, an early version of the facsimile machine.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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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.
1885: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...
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.
21 August 1871: The second Metropolis Water Act extended...
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21 August 1871
The second Metropolis Water Act extended sanitary regulations.
Hardy, Anne. “Parish Pump to Private Pipes: London’s Water Supply in the Nineteenth Century”. Living and Dying in London, edited by William F. Bynum and Roy Porter, Wellcome Insititute for the History of Medicine, 1991, pp. 76-93.
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The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
By late September 1927: The sisters who wrote together under the...
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By late September 1927
The sisters who wrote together under the name of K. L. Montgomery
published their last novel, Ware Venice.
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.
