Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Pat Barker
PB
is a contemporary writer of fiction (novels, linked tales, and short stories) who began publishing about women's lives but has made her special subject-matter the working-class culture of northern industrial towns and the experience...
Katharine S. Macquoid
's prolific writing career (over sixty books, as well as contributions to periodicals) spanned the last four decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. She was chiefly...
By 1879: Electric street lighting was introduced in...
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By 1879
Electric street lighting was introduced in London, on the north side of the Embankment and Waterloo Bridge.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
303
Hennessey, Roger Anthony Sean. The Electric Revolution. Oriel, 1971.
8-9, 11-12
May 1874: In the Fortnightly Review, Dr Elizabeth Garrett...
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May 1874
In the Fortnightly Review, Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
refuted Henry Maudsley
's argument against women's medical schooling in his article Sex in Mind and in Education.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
51
Early 1918: The League of Free Nations Association was...
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Early 1918
The League of Free Nations Association
was founded to promote the idea of a league formed from the existing military alliance of nations who were fighting against Germany.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
5 February 1597: Francis Bacon's volume of Essayes, Religious...
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5 February 1597
Francis Bacon
's volume of Essayes, Religious Meditations, Places of perswasion and disswasion, was published.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
January 1915: A Russian victory over an Ottoman army hastened...
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January 1915
A Russian victory over an Ottoman army hastened the collapse of the Ottoman Empire ruled by Turkey; the need for a scapegoat precipitated massacres of Armenians, which were worse than those of 1894-6.
Mazower, Mark. “The G-Word”. London Review of Books, 8 Feb. 2001, pp. 19-21.
19-20
Anderson, Perry. “Kemalism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 17, 11 Sept. 2008, pp. 3-12.
6-7
30 July 1949: Following a report of 1945, the Legal Aid...
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30 July 1949
Following a report of 1945, the Legal Aid and Advice Act received royal assent. It replaced a previously patchy or inadequate system with public funding for all those unable to pay a solicitor.
1823: William Huskisson, as MP for Liverpool and...
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1823
William Huskisson
, as MP for Liverpool and President of the Board of Trade
, secured the equalization of customs duties in Britain and Ireland, a big step on the road towards free trade.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Huskisson
1922: Helen Hamilton's Mountain Madness relates...
Women writers item
1922
Helen Hamilton
's Mountain Madness relates her adventures climbing in the French Alps and the Lake District.
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.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
163
Alic, Margaret. Hypatia’s Heritage: A History of Women in Science. Women’s Press, 1985.
116-17
By 23 November 1861: A hosiery-maker from Leicester, Ruth Wills,...
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By 23 November 1861
A hosiery-maker from Leicester, Ruth Wills
, published Lays of Lowly Life.
Boos, Florence S. “The ’Queen’ of the ’Far-Famed Penny Post’: ’The Factory Girl Poet’ and Her Audience”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
10
, No. 3, 2003, pp. 503-26.
Boos 526
Boos, Florence S. “The ’Queen’ of the ’Far-Famed Penny Post’: ’The Factory Girl Poet’ and Her Audience”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
10
, No. 3, 2003, pp. 503-26.
Boos 521
1956: The first Clean Air Act introduced levels...
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1956
The first Clean Air Act introduced levels of acceptable pollution for industry and set limits to domestic burning of wood or untreated coal in urban areas.
Saint, Andrew. “Successive Applications of Sticking-Plaster”. London Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2001, pp. 30-1.
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1949: Human sperm was first frozen in the United...
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1949
Human sperm was first frozen in the United States using liquid nitrogen.
Chen, Serena H., and Edward E. Wallach. “Five Decades of Progress in Management of the Infertile Couple”. Fertility and Sterility, Vol.
62
, No. 4, Oct. 1994, pp. 665-85.
667
Wood, Clive. Vasectomy and Sterilization. Temple Smith, 1974.
142
May 1844: Thomas Hood published The Bridge of Sighs,...
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May 1844
Thomas Hood
published The Bridge of Sighs, which was invoked repeatedly in Victorian treatments of the fallen woman.
Jerrold, Walter. Thomas Hood: His Life and Times. Greenwood Press, 1969.
379
Reid, John Cowie. Thomas Hood. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963.
215, 213, 258
Hood, Thomas. Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Editor Clubbe, John, Harvard University Press, 1970.
28, 392, 317
Jerrold indicates that Mary Furley was given a...
5 November 1686: Mother Frances Bedingfield (using, for safety,...
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5 November 1686
Mother Frances Bedingfield
(using, for safety, the alias Frances Long) signed the contract for the purchase of property on the site of the present Bar Convent
in York, to use as a girls' school
.
Gregory, M., and Isobel Grundy. Email about Mother Mary Davies to Isobel Grundy. 19 Apr. 2002.
Lerner, Gerda. The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle Ages to Eighteen-Seventy. Oxford University Press, 1993.
199
1801: The Theological Magazine, a Dissenting journal,...
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1801
The Theological Magazine, a Dissenting journal, began publishing; it ran till about 1814.
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
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1699: Golden Square in London was built as an exclusive...
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1699
Golden Square in London was built as an exclusive upper-class development; by the 1770s it had lost its cachet.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
68
1979: The cover of M. M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions...
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1979
The cover of M. M. Kaye
's The Far Pavilions in Penguin
paperback (the year after its original publication) shocked Penguin's established constituency with its picture of a couple (the man with bare torso) kissing.
Campbell, Peter. “At the V & A”. London Review of Books, 2 June 2005, p. 33.
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1950: Grace Robertson, a noted photojournalist...
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1950
Grace Robertson
, a noted photojournalist whose work is held by many galleries, began her tenure with Picture Post.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1966: The Times was taken over by Canadian magnate...
