Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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2 September 1483: William Caxton dated his edition of John...
17 August 1850: Denmark sold all its property on the Gold...
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17 August 1850
Denmark sold all its property on the Gold Coast (now Ghana) to the UK for £10,000.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 651
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1881: A voluntary treatment centre for prostitutes...
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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1971: Anna Adams's thin book of poetry entitled...
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1971
Anna Adams
's thin book of poetry entitled A Rainbow Plantation was published.
1896: Caroline Lindsay included a narrative poem...
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1896
Caroline Lindsay
included a narrative poem sequence, Lucinda's Letters, in her poetry collection The Flower-Seller, published this year.
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.
JH
became in 1794 an early and unusual practitioner of the new genre of the guidebook. As a poet she begins in introspection and expands to consider, in briskly colloquial style, such topics as political...
Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
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29 January 1753: Henry Fielding published A Proposal for making...
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29 January 1753
Henry Fielding
published A Proposal for making an Effectual Provision for the Poor, which he planned to do by establishing a county workhouse system.
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
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30 December 1779: Christopher Wyvill, a conservative supporter...
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30 December 1779
Christopher Wyvill
, a conservative supporter of parliamentary reform fuelled by a sense of the interests of the propertied gentry, held a meeting of about six hundred men at York assembly rooms, which resolved to...
1845: Polkamania swept England and originated polka-dot...
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1845
Polkamania swept England and originated polka-dot prints.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
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24 October 1945: The United Nations officially came into existence...
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24 October 1945
The United Nations
officially came into existence with fifty-one member nations.
“History of the United Nations”. The United Nations.
12 August 1765: The East India Company took over the direct...
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12 August 1765
The East India Company
took over the direct administration of revenues from Bengal. The young Mughal emperor, Shah Alam, dismissed his tax-collectors and gave their powers to officers of the company, in which...
5 November 1857: At a meeting of the London Philological Society,...
10 April 1974: The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry...
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10 April 1974
The Annan Committee
began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Annan
1808-1834: Thomas Moore issued Irish Melodies (full...
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1808-1834
Thomas Moore
issued Irish Melodies (full title A Selection of Irish Melodies, with symphonies and accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson) in a series of ten numbers.
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.
White, Terence de Vere. Tom Moore. Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
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Strong, L. A. G. The Minstrel Boy. Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
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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Bathsheba Bowers
BB
, a colonial American Quaker
, published just one of the many texts she says she wrote. This work, An Alarm Sounded, 1709, a spiritual autobiography in pamphlet form, is a narrative of...
23 February 1848: Fourteen-year-old Fleeming Jenkin (son of...
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23 February 1848
Fourteen-year-old Fleeming Jenkin
(son of the writer Henrietta Camilla Jenkin
and a future distinguished scientist), caught up in the February Revolution, noted the number and variety of women among the street mobs.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, and Fleeming Jenkin. “Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin”. Papers, Literary, Scientific, &c., edited by Sir Sidney Colvin et al., Longmans, Green, 1877, p. 1: xi - clxx.
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1881: Sigmund Freud graduated from medical school...
