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September 2006: J. T. LeRoy, the author of earthy and outspoken...

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September 2006

J. T. LeRoy , the author of earthy and outspoken bestselling novels such as The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things and Sarah, who had been assumed to be male, was revealed to be...

1814: With encouragement from the Archbishop of...

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1814

With encouragement from the Archbishop of Dublin, Francis Ball returned to the Bar Convent at York (where she had been a pupil) as a novice, with the purpose of qualifying herself to improve the...

10 June 1829: The second and final issue of the London...

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10 June 1829

The second and final issue of the London Review appeared.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 522

November 1911: Woman's Weekly, a mass weekly focusing on...

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November 1911

Woman's Weekly, a mass weekly focusing on fashion, meal-planning, and domestic issues, addressed to middle-class women, began publication in London.
Winship, Janice. Inside Women’s Magazines. Pandora, 1987.
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Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
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White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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1985: The first woman World Snooker Champion, seventeen-year-old...

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1985

The first woman World Snooker Champion, seventeen-year-old Alison Fisher , won her first championship.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1823: The patent expired on John Heathcoat's net-making...

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1823

The patent expired on John Heathcoat 's net-making machine; the machine-made lace industry boomed.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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1817: Physician John Haslam published Medical Jurisprudence...

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1817

Physician John Haslam published Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity according to the Law of England.
Walker, Nigel. Crime and Insanity in England. Edinburgh University Press, 1968.
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1601: A Poor Law Act gave responsibility for the...

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1601

A Poor Law Act gave responsibility for the poor (at local, parish level) to secular instead of religious authorities; this meant that a rate was levied on property owners.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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1982: Mary Douglas pioneered anthropological work...

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1982

Mary Douglas pioneered anthropological work on environmentalism and risk analysis in her book Risk and Culture, written in collaboration with political scientist Aaron Wildavsky .
Fardon, Richard. Mary Douglas: An Intellectual Biography. Routledge, 1999.
144, 300, 302

Constance Lytton

Apart from her warm and witty private correspondence, CL is remembered as a writer solely in connection with her early-twentieth-century suffrage involvement, particularly her one-woman campaign to prove that the British government was treating political...
Constance Lytton Black and white photograph of Constance Lytton, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a white dress and a beaded necklace, and her dark hair is pulled into a dark bun on the top of her head.

Grace Aguilar

GA , author of short stories, novels, and religious writings, was the only Anglo-Jewish woman in the nineteenth century to achieve considerable success as a writer. In addition to writing for gift-books and periodicals, in...
Grace Aguilar Black and white engraved print of Grace Aguilar. She wears a dark coat with a buckle in the V of the collar with a necklace attached. She faces the viewer at an angle, with a small, closed smile.

J. S. Anna Liddiard

JSAL was an Irish poet of the early nineteenth century, whose subjects touch on landscape, human relations, Irish history and culture, and patriotism both Irish and British. She also wrote translations and a masque.

From about 1899 to 1904: The Women's Co-operative Guild focussed on...

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From about 1899 to 1904

The Women's Co-operative Guild focussed on extending the principles of co-operation to the poor.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
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Scott, Gillian. Feminism and the Politics of Working Women: The Women’s Cooperative Guild, 1880s to the Second World War. UCL Press, 1998.
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1965: The University of Kent at Canterbury was...

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1965

The University of Kent at Canterbury was founded.
Whitaker’s Almanack. 119th ed., J. Whitaker, 1987.
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The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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1949: The University of London founded the Athlone...

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1949

The University of London founded the Athlone Press , named after its then current chancellor.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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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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By June 1797: The unidentified Mrs Carver published one...

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By June 1797

The unidentified Mrs Carver published one of her two novels this year with the Minerva Press : Elizabeth. The other is the distinctly gruesome The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 709-10, 741; 2: 111

January 1823: Charles Lamb published the first volume of...

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January 1823

Charles Lamb published the first volume of his Essays of Elia, which had been appearing regularly since August 1820 in the London Magazine.
Lamb, Charles, 1775 - 1834, and Mary, 1764 - 1847 Lamb. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Editor Lucas, Edward Verrall, J. M. Dent, 1935, 3 vols.
2: 560
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003.
317, 330-1

1791: William Gilpin founded a parochial school...

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1791

William Gilpin founded a parochial school in Hampshire in which boys were taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, but girls learned only reading, knitting, and sewing.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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1937: Stella Browne testified before a parliamentary...

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1937

Stella Browne testified before a parliamentary committee on abortion (which was then illegal), as a matter of public duty, about her knowledge in my own person that abortion was not necessarily fatal or injurious to...

Fanny Kingsley

Fanny Kingsley 's literary activity centres around the life of her husband, the writer and clergyman Charles Kingsley. She edited his letters for publication after his death, as well as several volumes of his...

1927: English director Alfred Hitchcock was recognized...

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1927

English director Alfred Hitchcock was recognized as a film talent and hired at British International Pictures , which had built studios at Elstree with the aim of becoming the British equivalent to Hollywood.
Robinson, David. The History of World Cinema. Stein and Day, 1981.
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From about 1314 to 1321: Dante Alighieri composed, for circulation...

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From about 1314 to 1321

Dante Alighieri composed, for circulation in manuscript, his religious allegory La divina commedia, comprising the Inferno, Purgatorio, and the Paradiso.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.

February 1912: Irish Women's Franchise League members held...

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February 1912

Irish Women's Franchise League members held a protest outside the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, where John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party were meeting.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
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Ward, Margaret. “’Suffrage First--Above All Else!’ An Account of the Irish Suffrage Movement”. Feminist Review, Vol.
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, 1982, pp. 21-36.
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1878: The Ambulance Association of the British...

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1878

The Ambulance Association of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded began an organized ambulance service for civilians.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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August 1975: Enid Nemy's New York Times story entitled...

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August 1975

Enid Nemy 's New York Times story entitled Women Begin to Speak Out Against Sexual Harassment at Work was syndicated across the USA, popularizing and legitimating the term coined three months before by Cornell