Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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By August 1784: James Ramsay published An Essay on the Treatment...
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By August 1784
James Ramsay
published An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of the African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
54 (1784): 597
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
13 June 1842: Queen Victoria first travelled by train,...
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13 June 1842
Queen Victoria
first travelled by train, from Slough to Paddington.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Allen, G. Freeman. Railways: Past, Present and Future. Orbis Publishing, 1982.
48, 105, 118
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
85
June 1914: The Malthusian estimated 100,000 induced...
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June 1914
The Malthusian estimated 100,000 induced miscarriages per year in Britain.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
194
Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. Longman, 1981.
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McLaren, Angus. Birth Control in Nineteenth Century England. Croom Helm, 1978.
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This part confirmed by The Lancet (1899) and McLaren, Birth Control in 19th c England, 241*.
1719: Richard Steele wrote and edited another short-lived...
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1719
Richard Steele
wrote and edited another short-lived periodical, The Spinster: in defence of the woollen manufactures, as by Rachel Woolpack.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
43
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.
1794: Margaret Coghlan, Daughter of the Late Major...
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1794
Margaret Coghlan
, Daughter of the Late Major Moncrieffe, published her memoirs in two volumes.
Adam Matthew Publications. http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/womens_autobiographies_parts_1_and_2/Detailed-Listing-Part-1.aspx.
January 1732: A Treatise of Feme Coverts, or, The Lady's...
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January 1732
A Treatise of Feme Coverts, or, The Lady's Law was published by Bernard Lintot
: a book of advice to women on keeping property in their own hands.
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
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Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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4 October 1966: Basutoland became independent as Lesotho...
Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
99
1847: Factions of the teetotal movement began to...
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1847
Factions of the teetotal movement began to agitate against smoking.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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8 January 1940: Food rationing began in earnest in Britain:...
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8 January 1940
Food rationing began in earnest in Britain: sugar had been rationed the previous month; now butter and bacon followed.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.
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Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
400
6 November 1916: The UK, France, and Russia recognized Hussein...
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6 November 1916
The UK, France, and Russia recognized Hussein
(Sharif or Emir of Mecca) as head of Arab peoples and King of Hejaz (western Saudi Arabia).
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 774, 849
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
460
Between 900 and 1000: King Eadgar founded eight nunneries and ordered...
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Between 900 and 1000
King Eadgar
founded eight nunneries and ordered a translation of the Benedictine Rule into English.
Gardiner, Dorothy Kempe. English Girlhood at School: A Study of Women’s Education Through Twelve Centuries. Oxford University Press, 1929.
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April 1791: The month before the appearance of his Life...
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April 1791
The month before the appearance of his Life of Samuel Johnson
, and as parliament debated the bill to abolish slavery, James Boswell
published a long poem entitled No Abolition of Slavery; or, The Universal...
1946: The Report from the Equal Pay Commission...
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1946
The Report from the Equal Pay Commission
argued that equal pay was appropriate only in certain cases.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968. Tavistock, 1980.
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Mackie, Lindsay, and Polly Pattullo. Women at Work. Tavistock, 1977.
134-5
27 February 1730: Colonel Francis Charteris was convicted for...
Battestin, Martin C., and Ruthe Battestin. Henry Fielding: A Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Schwarz, Joan I. “Statutory and Case Rape Law and Women’s Representation”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Providence, RI, 1993.
1918: Two years after her best-known portrait of...
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1918
Two years after her best-known portrait of Lytton Strachey
, Carrington
(Dora Carrington) painted another portrait of him, sitting in a deck-chair in the garden at Tidmarsh Mill, where they lived.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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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.
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Strachey, Lytton. The Shorter Strachey. Editors Holroyd, Michael and Paul Levy, Oxford University Press, 1980.
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1975: The first woman lighthouse-keeper in England,...
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1975
The first woman lighthouse-keeper in England, Peggy Braithwaite
, started work at Walney Island, Lancaster.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1593: Dona Reyna Nasi, widow of Don Joseph Nasi,...
