Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1560: The complete Geneva Bible appeared, translated...
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1560
The complete GenevaBible appeared, translated by English Protestant exiles from the reign of Mary
: the first accessible or mass-circulation edition of the Bible in English, with small format and roman (not gothic) print.
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
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August 1847: As a result of the famine, three million...
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August 1847
As a result of the famine, three million Irish were being served by government-sponsored soup kitchens; the programme was halted without notice in September, forcing 200,000 into workhouses.
Adelman, Paul. Great Britain and the Irish Question 1800-1922. Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
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15 November 1942: Church bells (which quite recently had stood...
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15 November 1942
Church bells (which quite recently had stood ready to signal invasion) were rung all over Britain, in the wake of the battle of El Alamein, to celebrate the defeat of Rommel
.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
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1992: The Higher and Further Education Act linked...
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1992
The Higher and Further Education Act linked state funding for universities and colleges to student numbers; institutions were impelled into a race for expansion.
Ainley, Patrick. Degrees of Difference: Higher Education in the 1990s. Laurence and Wishart, 1994.
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1702-1704: The History of the Rebellion by Edward Hyde,...
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.
2 July 1868: An extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts...
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2 July 1868
An extension of the Contagious Diseases Acts to eleven more jurisdictions was recommended by a House of Lords
committee.
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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1932: Margaret Louisa Woods edited a collection...
1 February 1855: The last issue of the Prospective Review...
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1 February 1855
The last issue of the Prospective Review was published; its aims were continued and broadened in the later National Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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2 January 1847: The weekly Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial...
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2 January 1847
The weekly Lady's Newspaper and Pictorial Times began publication in London.
Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Palmegiano states that this newspaper became the Lady's Newspaper, The Queen and the Court Chronicle in 1863, and continued to publish...
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Medbh McGuckian
MMG
, who lives in Northern Ireland, is well-regarded among contemporary poets writing in English. She began by writing a very private and reserved poetry. Using images from the home and from nature, she explored...
By autumn 1896: French erotic writer Pierre Louÿs, already...
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By autumn 1896
French erotic writer Pierre Louÿs
, already notorious for the lesbian Songs of Bilitis, 1895, printed at his own expense his best-known work, Aphrodite, about a courtesan in ancient Alexandria.
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Merry Wives of Westminster. Macmillan, 1946.
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March 1894: George Moore published Esther Waters, a novel...
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March 1894
George Moore
published Esther Waters, a novel whose eponymous heroine is a servant and a struggling single mother.
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.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
8 August-31 October 1940: The Battle of Britain was fought over Southeastern...
Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Macmillan, 2000.
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1870: Albert F. King, an American physician and...
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1870
Albert F. King
, an American physician and professor whose works were also published in Britain, claimed that menstruation was a new phenomenon.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Random House, 1997.
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10 December 1966: Nelly Sachs was awarded the Nobel Prize in...
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10 December 1966
Nelly Sachs
was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature jointly with Yosef Shmuel Agnon
. The Nobel Foundation's joint award in 1966 recognized these two authors' writings about the cultural heritage of the Jewish people.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.
1616: William Goddard published A Satirycall Dialogue,...
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April 1787: Probably at least three hundred and fifty...
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April 1787
Probably at least three hundred and fifty blacks sailed from London for Sierra Leone to found a free black colony; they arrived in the middle of the following month.
Walvin, James et al. “Ignatius Sancho: The Man and His Times”. Ignatius Sancho: An African Man of Letters, National Portrait Gallery, 1997, pp. 93-113.
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Crooks, John Joseph. A History of the Colony of Sierra Leone, Western Africa. Metro Books, 1972.
foreword, 364
1915: Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford...
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1915
Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford University
agreed to allow the formation of mixed societies.
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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15 May 1919: Peg's Paper, one of the first magazines of...
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15 May 1919
Peg's Paper, one of the first magazines of romantic fiction directed at working-class women, began publication in London.
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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Ferguson, Marjorie. Forever Feminine: Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Femininity. Heinemann, 1983.
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After September 1940: During the London blitz, according to a US...
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After September 1940
During the London blitz, according to a US literary historian, one of the earliest harbingers of rehabilitation was the appearance of books in the fetid burrows while the bombs rained overhead.
Haycraft, Howard. Murder for Pleasure. Carroll and Graf, 1984.
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7 November 1752-9 March 1754: The self-educated John Hawkesworth edited...
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7 November 1752-9 March 1754
The self-educated John Hawkesworth
edited and published an essay-periodical called the Adventurer, on the model of Johnson
's Rambler.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
June 1879-January 1880: George Meredith's novel The Egoist was serialised...
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June 1879-January 1880
George Meredith
's novel The Egoist was serialised in the Glasgow Weekly Herald.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
