Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1857: Philip Gosse published Omphalos, a Creationist...
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1857
Philip Gosse
published Omphalos, a Creationist approach to evolution which attempted to explain the existence of Adam's navel.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
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Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
1904: The London Metropolitan Water Board was formed...
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1904
The LondonMetropolitan Water Board
was formed (after pressure from a series of royal commissions) out of a number of private water companies.
Rudden, Bernard. “The Purchas’d Wave”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 28-9.
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1717: The worthy authors chosen for a miscellany...
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1717
The worthy authors chosen for a miscellany entitled The Agreeable Variety by its female editor included Behn
, Philips
, Chudleigh
, and Finch
.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
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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.
22 August 1885: The day after the age of sexual consent was...
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22 August 1885
The day after the age of sexual consent was raised by the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, a huge demonstration against criminal vice was held in Hyde Park.
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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19 November 1890: A British protectorate was declared over...
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19 November 1890
A British protectorate was declared over Witu, which is now Kenya.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 588
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
883
11 September 1973: The elected government of Salvador Allende...
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11 September 1973
The elected government of Salvador Allende
in Chile was violently overthrown; Allende committed suicide, and the army under General Augusto Pinochet
took power. Twelve days later the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda
died.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
Roy, Arundhati. “Come September”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
1-9 May 1908: In Muzaffarpur, India, a bomb blast killed...
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1-9 May 1908
In Muzaffarpur, India, a bomb blast killed two British women and their coachman; subsequent police raids revealed existence of a revolutionary plot, and thirty people were arrested.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 835
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
903
1792: The Evangelical Henry Thornton bought a house...
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
1: 205
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
1834: 376ff
Sweet, Matthew. Inventing the Victorians. St Martin’s Press, 2001.
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7 December 1666: More than a hundred Covenanters were found...
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7 December 1666
More than a hundred Covenanters
were found guilty of rebellion and sentenced to be hanged with particular brutality from the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.
1948: Agnes Headlam-Morley became the first woman...
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1948
Agnes Headlam-Morley
became the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Oxford
when she took up the Montague Burton Chair of International Relations.
“Women at Oxford”. University of Oxford.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
30 May 1962: The newly-built Coventry Cathedral was consecrated,...
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30 May 1962
The newly-built Coventry Cathedral was consecrated, and heard the first performance of Benjamin Britten
's War Requiem, with words from the Latin mass and from poems by Wilfred Owen
.
Anderson, Don. “Program Notes for Lord Benjamin Britten: War Requiem Op. 66”. Signature Magazine: The Official Program of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Vol.
17
, No. 1, Oct.–Nov. 2000, pp. 27-9.
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1794: In his General View of the County of Westmorland,...
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1794
In his General View of the County of Westmorland, Andrew Pringle
reported that although generally horse work was men's work, in Westmorland women often drove teams of three or four harnessed to ploughs or...
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Jane Cave
JC
, eighteenth-century poet, has not received the critical attention merited by her literary ability. She is remarkable for the number of provincial centres in which she published. Having married an exciseman, she lived a...
5 April 1654: The Treaty of Westminster ended the war with...
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5 April 1654
The Treaty of Westminster ended the war with Holland (known as the United Provinces or the States).
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Cromwell
1941: Canadian painter and writer Emily Carr won...
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1941
Canadian painter and writer Emily Carr
won the Governor General's Award for Klee Wyck, a book of twenty-one fragments of autobiography describing her sketching trips to Native villages on the British Columbia coast.
Todkill, Anne Marie. “A Canadian original”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxi
, No. 10-11, July 2004, pp. 1-4.
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5 December 1941: Britain declared war against Finland, Hungary,...
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5 December 1941
Britain declared war against Finland, Hungary, and Romania.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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10 December 1911: Marie Curie's discovery of the elements radium...
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10 December 1911
Marie Curie
's discovery of the elements radium and polonium won her a second Nobel
Prize, this time in Chemistry.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.
March 1886: Petroleum was discovered at Jebel Zeit, Egypt,...
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March 1886
Petroleum was discovered at Jebel Zeit, Egypt, on the Red Sea.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 633
9 November 1911: The Women's Social and Political Union ended...
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9 November 1911
The Women's Social and Political Union
ended its unoffical truce with the Government in reaction to the exclusion of women from the proposed Reform Bill.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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By January 1821: James Mill published Elements of Political...
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By January 1821
James Mill
published Elements of Political Economy.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
24 (1821): 546
1913: The Paris newspaper Le Matin installed the...
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1913
The Paris newspaper Le Matin installed the first British-built Unit-type press made by R. Hoe and Company
in London.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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24 January 1671: Jean Racine's Bérénice, first produced on...
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24 January 1671
Jean Racine
's Bérénice, first produced on stage the previous year, was published.
Walton, Charles Leonard, and Jean Racine. “Introduction”. Bérénice, Oxford University Press, 1965, pp. 9-52.
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Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.
29 September 1939: The British Government began implementing...
