Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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By August 1775: Sarah Siddons first performed the role of...
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By August 1775
Sarah Siddons
first performed the role of Hamlet at Worcester: she went on to repeat the part at Manchester, Bristol, and probably Liverpool even before she finally cracked the London stage in 1782.
Woo, Catherine. “Sarah Siddons’s Performances as Hamlet: Breaching the Breeches Part”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 5, Dec. 2007, pp. 573-95.
574 and n10
28 June 1919: The Treaty of Versailles was signed, settling...
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28 June 1919
The Treaty of Versailles was signed, settling the peace terms imposed by the victors of World War I on Germany and its allied nations.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
249
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 593
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
82
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Bussey, Gertrude, and Margaret Tims. Pioneers for Peace: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1965. WILPF British Section, 1980.
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Keynes, John Maynard, Baron. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Macmillan, 1919.
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
978
Keynes, Britain's chief Treasury...
May 1838: The People's Charter (after which the Chartist...
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May 1838
The People's Charter (after which the Chartist movement was named) was published.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011. The Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution. Pantheon, 1984.
122, 124
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
38
1906: Mary MacArthur founded the National Federation...
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
809-11
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
143
Lawrence, Elizabeth. Gender and Trade Unions. Taylor and Francis, 1994.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Mary MacArthur
March 1847: Benjamin Disraeli published his novel Ta...
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
April 1890: W. T. Stead established the Review of Reviews...
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April 1890
W. T. Stead
established the Review of Reviews Office in Mowbray House, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
266, 270
1979: Lynn Conway (a transgendered US computer...
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1979
Lynn Conway
(a transgendered US computer scientist, a woman born as a male) radically simplified microchip design, permitting huge advances in engineering.
Vare, Ethlie Ann, and Greg Ptacek. Patently Female. John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
80-82
27 April 1866: Benjamin Disraeli, leader of the opposition...
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27 April 1866
Benjamin Disraeli
, leader of the opposition to the Liberal
government, argued that if there is to be universal suffrage, women have as much right to vote as men.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
160, 386n34
9 January 1862: Alexandrine P. F. Tinné, a Dutch heiress,...
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9 January 1862
Alexandrine P. F. Tinné
, a Dutch heiress, left Cairo with her mother and aunt and began an ascent of the White Nile.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
200
18 April 1791: Horace Walpole reported that sedan chairs...
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18 April 1791
Horace Walpole
reported that sedan chairs were dying out as a form of transport: London was now too big.
Walpole, Horace. The Letters of Horace Walpole. Editor Toynbee, Mrs Paget, Clarendon, 1903–1925, 16 vols.
14: 416
1904: Sir Walter Raleigh, author of the literary...
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1904
Sir Walter Raleigh
, author of the literary history The English Novel, 1894, moved from Glasgow
to become the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford
.
Warner, William Beatty. Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750. University of California Press, 1998.
29
31 May-9 June 1928: British pilot Charles Kingsford-Smith and...
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
210
January 1961: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned...
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January 1961
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower
warned in his farewell address against the growing influence of the military-industrial complex in national affairs.
Shapin, Steven. “Megaton Man”. London Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2002, pp. 18-20.
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Early December 1908: A meeting of suffragists at the Albert Hall...
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Early December 1908
A meeting of suffragists at the Albert Hall was marred by violence from both sides: a woman struck a steward in the face with a whip, and women were roughly handled.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
112 and n14
18 May 1804: At the coronation ceremony which made him...
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18 May 1804
At the coronation ceremony which made him Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte
took the crown from the hands of the Pope and placed it on his own head.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945.
62n2
May 1947: The housewives debate was held in the House...
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May 1947
The housewives debate was held in the House of Commons
in which male Members of Parliament spoke against keeping wartime British Restaurants
open and in favour of wives cooking for men at home.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968. Tavistock, 1980.
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Author profile
Eliza Kirkham Mathews
EKM
published less than has been supposed. Only her children's books, two volumes of poems, and two novels (melodramatic but heartfelt, presenting actual, financial, as well as romance-type struggles) pose no problems of attribution. She...
2 August 1740: James Thomson's masque Alfred the Great was...
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2 August 1740
James Thomson
's masque Alfred the Great was first staged, in a special performance for the Prince and Princess of Wales: its pronounced patriotism was of the kind tied to the current political opposition.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 August 2010
1928: The seventh volume of Havelock Ellis's Studies...
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1928
The seventh volume of Havelock Ellis
's Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies was published.
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.
1936: Men Ask for Beauty, a novel by Rosalind Wade,...
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1936
Men Ask for Beauty, a novel by Rosalind Wade
, was published.
28 November 1734: The Daily Courant launched the first attack...
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28 November 1734
The Daily Courant launched the first attack on Joshua Ward
for his dubious patent medicine, Ward's drop.
Wilson, Philip K. “Exposing the Secret Disease: Recognizing and Treating Syphilis in Daniel Turner’s London”. The Secret Malady, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 68-84.
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1 January 1859: Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female...
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1 January 1859
Elizabeth Blackwell
became the first female physician listed on the United Kingdom Medical Register.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
145
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
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1865: Cambridge University formally admitted female...
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1865
Cambridge University
formally admitted female students to Local Examinations, which were the culminating assessment of secondary schooling.
Howarth, Janet, and Emily Davies. “Introduction”. The Higher Education of Women, Hambledon Press, 1988.
xxvii
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
174
Pedersen, Joyce Senders. The Reform of Girls’ Secondary and Higher Education in Victorian England: A Study of Elites and Educational Change. Garland, 1987.
