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1834: A monthly periodical entitled Mother's Magazine...

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1834

A monthly periodical entitled Mother's Magazine began publication in London.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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13 February 1843: Oliver Wendell Holmes first suggested, in...

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13 February 1843

Oliver Wendell Holmes first suggested, in a paper delivered to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement , that childbed (puerperal) fever was carried on doctors' hands.
Rosebury, Theodor. Microbes and Morals: The Strange Story of Venereal Disease. Viking Press, 1971.
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Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Talbott, John H. A Biographical History of Medicine: Excerpts and Essays on the Men and Their Work. Grune and Stratton, 1970.
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Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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By 1841: At least twenty Chartist Churches were established...

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By 1841

At least twenty Chartist Churches were established in Scotland.
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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1850: The British Royal Meteorological Society...

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1850

The British Royal Meteorological Society was founded.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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January 1760-December 1761: Tobias Smollett's Sir Launcelot Greaves appeared...

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January 1760-December 1761

Tobias Smollett 's Sir Launcelot Greaves appeared over twenty-five issues of the British Magazine (beginning in the first, January 1760): this made it the first-ever serialised novel.
Catto, Susan J. Modest Ambition: The Influence of Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, and the Ideal of Female Diffidence on Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, and Frances Brooke. University of Oxford, 1998.
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29 October 1919: The International Labour Organization, set...

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29 October 1919

The International Labour Organization , set up this year by the Treaty of Versailles, began its first conference, in Washington, DC. It passed a resolution accepting an eight-hour workday.
“ILO History”. International Labor Organization (ILO), 26 Oct. 2000.

1 January 1914: The Women's Medical Service was established...

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1 January 1914

The Women's Medical Service was established to professionalize and improve the conditions and salaries of women doctors in India; Dr Margaret Balfour was the Chief Medical Officer.
Bell, E. Moberly. Storming the Citadel. Constable, 1953.
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1895: The London Booksellers' Society was succeeded...

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1895

The London Booksellers' Society was succeeded by the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland , which supported Frederick Macmillan 's proposal for the net pricing of books.
Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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Feltes, Norman N. Modes of Production of Victorian Novels. University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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January 1864: William Meynell Whittemore launched the religious...

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January 1864

William Meynell Whittemore launched the religious periodical Golden Hours: it ran under his editorship until December 1884.
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.

1879: The Anglican Community of St Denys was founded...

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1879

The Anglican Community of St Denys was founded in Warminster, Wiltshire.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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20 November 1839: Missionary John Williams was clubbed to death...

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20 November 1839

Missionary John Williams was clubbed to death by cannibal islanders of Erromanga in the New Hebrides; missions on many of the islands were fraught with danger.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
under Erromanga

7 March 1906: The Working Gentlewomen's Journal began monthly...

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7 March 1906

The Working Gentlewomen's Journal began monthly publication in London with articles on genteel employment.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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1942: Owing to wartime shortage of labour, five...

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1942

Owing to wartime shortage of labour, five thousand female engineers were hired by the Post Office .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

11 December 1676: William Wycherley's last play, The Plain...

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11 December 1676

William Wycherley 's last play, The Plain Dealer (a somewhat dark comedy), adapted from Molière 's Le Misanthrope, had its first appearance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.

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...
Ethel Lilian Voynich Black and white photograph of Ethel Lilian Voynich, shown from the shoulders up. She is wearing a white smock over a dark dress with long sleeves, and a high, frilled neckline, and her hair is pulled back. Below, her signature is reproduced with a salutation: "Faithfully yours E. L. Voynich."

13 February 1649: Following the king's execution, Milton published...

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13 February 1649

Following the king 's execution, Milton published The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, a pamphlet designed to enforce the general point that a tyrant may be lawfully got rid of.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
The pamphlet collector George Thomason

16 December 1789: The Society for Constitutional Information...

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16 December 1789

The Society for Constitutional Information (a potentially radical political organization) held its semi-annual meeting at the London Tavern, to commemorate the centenary of the Bill of Rights.
Butler, Marilyn, editor. Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
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Anne Dowriche

AD was a sixteenth-century poet and translator with a passion for Protestantism, a feeling for the heroic element in religious history, and a fondness for acrosticss.
Anne Dowriche Portrait painting of Anne Dowriche, dated 1567. She faces the viewer on a slight angle, with a slightly tense expression. She wears a heavy, dark, ornamented gown with a high, stiff ruffled collar that encircles her jawline and joins to an ornate headband, and her hair is pulled back from her face.

1979: The British Medical Association appointed...

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1979

The British Medical Association appointed its first female president, obstetrician and gynaecologist Dame Josephine Barnes , two years after her retirement from the National Health Service .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Maud Gonne

English-born MG subjected almost all the writing as well as all the activity in her life to her Irish nationalism. From a highly effective and dramatic orator she became a polemical journalist, first in French...
Maud Gonne Black and white, three-quarter-length photograph of Maud Gonne, standing hand on hip in a defiant pose. Her dark, elaborate hat has a bird's wings jutting out on top; her dark jacket has a standaway collar, leg-of-mutton sleeves, decoration all over and a tight belt.

1856: Margaret Agnes Colvile, future wife of publisher...

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1856

Margaret Agnes Colvile , future wife of publisher Charles Kegan Paul , published her first two novels: Dorothy: A Tale and DeCressy.
Howsam, Leslie. Kegan Paul—A Victorian Imprint. Kegan Paul; University of Toronto Press, 1998.
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24 November 1960: An experimental writing group was formed...

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24 November 1960

An experimental writing group was formed in France, calling itself Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle or OuLiPo (in English Workshop of Potential Literature).
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
24 November 2010
Grimstad, Paul. “Anticipatory Plagiarism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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26 July 1956: Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt nationalised...

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26 July 1956

Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt nationalised the Suez Canal and temporarily closed it to traffic; the move (made in response to British-American refusal to finance the Aswan Dam, and a general fear of Egypt moving...

1941: Leslie Howard starred in two British films,...

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1941

Leslie Howard starred in two British films, The First of the Few and 49th Parallel.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and...

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19 July 1553

Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen, and Mary Tudor assumed the throne of England and Wales.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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