Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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7 January 1896: The first Fanny Farmer Cookbook by Fannie...
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7 January 1896
The first Fanny Farmer Cookbook by Fannie Meritt Farmer
(officially titled The Boston Cooking School Cookbook) was published.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
7 December 2009
Writer or writing
Author profile
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich
, née Boole, was an Irish-born musician, novelist, translator and revolutionary, publishing in the 1890s and the first half of the twentieth century. She is renowned for her first novel, The Gadfly...
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was a poet of ideas who wrote during the mid to late nineteenth century, developing in her work both her feminist views about reforming social attitudes, and, later, her religious faith as she became...
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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July 1975: Contributing to her reputation as an important...
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July 1975
Contributing to her reputation as an important film critic, Penelope Gilliatt
published a filmmaker's profile entitled Jean Renoir
: Essays, Conversations, Reviews.
March 1777: Antiquarian John Carter argued in the Builder's...
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March 1777
Antiquarian John Carter
argued in the Builder's Magazine that Gothic architecture represented the true English taste (as opposed to classical forms, which were foreign).
Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000.
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24 March 1905: Jules Verne, novelist, died in Amiens, F...
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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16 March 1926: A rocket designed by Robert Goddard at Clark...
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16 March 1926
A rocket designed by Robert Goddard
at Clark University
, Worcester, Massachusetts, made the first free flight of a liquid-fuelled rocket.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Ardley, Neil. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists. Helicon, 1996.
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5 June 1947: American Secretary of State George Marshall...
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5 June 1947
American Secretary of State George Marshall
proposed his European Recovery Programme (the Marshall Plan); it was accepted by Britain and other European nations on the thirteenth of July.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Alderman, Geoffrey. Modern Britain 1700-1983: A Domestic History. Croom Helm, 1986.
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Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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12 September 1959: The Soviet Union's Lunik 2 became the first...
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12 September 1959
The Soviet Union's Lunik 2 became the first manufactured object to impact on the moon.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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6 October 1802: Isaac Cruikshank depicted, in a print entitled...
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6 October 1802
Isaac Cruikshank
depicted, in a print entitled British Vessels, Described for the use of Country Gentlemen, seven different types of prostitute named after different types of vessel.
McCreery, Cindy. “True Blue and Black, Brown and Fair: prints of British sailors and their women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 135-52.
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1918: Oxford University opened its postgraduate...
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1918
Oxford University
opened its postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law examination to women; this was one of the changes introduced because the First World War shifted opinion towards assimilation of women in educational institutions.
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
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1835: Tait's lowered its price in the wake of the...
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1835
Tait's lowered its price in the wake of the easing of the advertisement tax in 1834, maintaining that an increasingly literate public was not necessarily wealthy.
Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Macmillan, 2000.
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By 22 March 1780: The British government raised its tax on...
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By 22 March 1780
The British government raised its tax on newspaper advertising by an extra sixpence per notice: this probably deterred many publishers and authors from advertising new books.
Tierney, James E. “Advertisements for Books in London Newspapers, 1760-1785”. Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, edited by Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, Vol.
30
, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, pp. 153-64.
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: Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, who was black,...
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Summer 1955
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till
, who was black, was brutally murdered at a little town called Money in the Mississippi Delta for having either whistled or called Bye, baby after a white woman.
Younge, Gary. “Murder that powered a revolution”. Guardian Weekly, 17–23 June 2005, p. 20.
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9 December 2003: The UK's first toll motorway, the M6 Toll...
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9 December 2003
The UK's first toll motorway, the M6 Toll Road, officially opened. The 27-mile stretch of road (formerly known as the Birmingham Northern Relief Road) was designed to give motorists the chance to avoid congestion...
1986: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished...
