Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Sarah Savage
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, a religious diarist and letter-writer of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, offers insight into women's roles in family and community and into the part played by writing and reading in those roles.
October 1794: The The Free-Masons's Magazine carried a...
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October 1794
The The Free-Masons's Magazine carried a fiercely anti-slavery poem by someone calling herself Clorinda: An Elegy to the Island of Jamaica.
Snell, Susan. Poetry by Women in the Freemasons’ Magazine, vols 1 - 11, 1793 - 1798. 16 Sept. 2016.
1855: The Sunday Trading Bill provoked riots in...
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1855
The Sunday Trading Bill provoked riots in Hyde Park and was subsequently withdrawn.
Jones, Gareth Stedman. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
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1873: Dr H. W. Vogel of Berlin observed colour...
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1873
Dr H. W. Vogel
of Berlin observed colour in his photographic plates: this discovery led to the advent of colour photography.
Coote, Jack H. The Illustrated History of Colour Photography. Fountain Press, 1993.
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Iles, George. Flame, Electricity and the Camera: Man’s Progress from the First Kindling of Fire to the Wireless Telegraph and the Photography of Color. Doubleday, Page, 1903.
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Late October 1973: Britain's Royal Commission on the Constitution...
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Late October 1973
Britain's Royal Commission on the Constitution published its findings (known from its latest chair as the Kilbrandon Report).
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(29 October 1973): 3
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Willa Muir
WM
, a twentieth-century Scotswoman, wrote in fiction and non-fiction about gender inequality, patriarchy, and the repressiveness of Calvinism, but never defined herself as a feminist. She was alert to the devaluing of women's work...
October 1928: The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican...
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October 1928
The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican
monthly, ended publication in London.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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Jackson, Louise A. Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England. Routledge, 2000.
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1785-1814: Esther Tuke, a Quaker, ran a school for girls...
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1785-1814
Esther Tuke
, a Quaker, ran a school for girls in Trinity Lane, York.
Hans, Nicholas A. New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.
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1628-1632: John Comenius wrote his Didactica Magna,...
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1628-1632
John Comenius
wrote his Didactica Magna, which argues for the education of girls.
Barbour, Paula L., and Bathsua Makin. “Introduction”. An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1980, p. iii - xi.
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Comenius, John Amos. “Introductions”. The Great Didactic of John Amos Comenius, translated by. Maurice Walter Keatinge, 2nd ed., Russell, 1967, pp. 1-169.
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1 April 1867: The government of the Straits Settlements...
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1 April 1867
The government of the Straits Settlements (which included Singapore, Penang, and Malacca) was transferred from the government of India to the British Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 900
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
908
10 December 1848: By an overwhelming majority, the French elected...
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10 December 1848
By an overwhelming majority, the French elected Louis Napoleon
(the nephew of the Emperor) under the slogan No more taxes, down with the rich, down with the Republic, long live the Emperor.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
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15 June 2007: Tatiana de Rosnay, born in France in 1961...
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15 June 2007
Tatiana de Rosnay
, born in France in 1961 to an English mother and Russian father, published her first and most famous English-language novel Sarah's Key, which in 2015 had sold nine million copies...
1850s: Railway lines were completed to provide service...
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1850s
Railway lines were completed to provide service along the north and south coasts in Wales.
Turnock, David. Railways in the British Isles: Landscape, Land Use and Society. Adam and Charles Black, 1982.
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1867: The first International Congress of Archaeology...
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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July 1972: The premier issue of Ms. was published, featuring...
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July 1972
The premier issue of Ms. was published, featuring a description of the consciousness raising or "c.r." group organization tactics advocated by associations like the Redstockings
throughout the early 1970s.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
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9 November 1604: Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton entered...
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1908: Two books by the multicultural explorer Isabelle...
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1908
Two books by the multicultural explorer Isabelle Eberhardt
were posthumously published at Paris: Dans l'ombre chaude de l'Islam and Notes de route. Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie.
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.
1831: Joseph Rickerby established himself as a...
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1831
Joseph Rickerby
established himself as a printer and publisher at 3 Sherbourn Lane, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 258, 260
1892: Helen Wallace published her final novel as...
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1892
Helen Wallace
published her final novel as Gordon Roy, For Better, for Worse.
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.
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.
1868: Anne Jemima Clough organised Lectures for...
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1868
Anne Jemima Clough
organised Lectures for Ladies throughout Northern England.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
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Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
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1898: Life in the Shop, a series of articles based...
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1898
Life in the Shop, a series of articles based on Margaret Bondfield
's survey of shop assistants' working conditions, was published in the Daily Chronicle.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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By April 1929: The Book Society (first conceived of by Arnold...
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By April 1929
The Book Society
(first conceived of by Arnold Bennett
) was launched by Hugh Walpole
with himself as chairman; it was the first such society in Britain.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Feather, John. A History of British Publishing. Croom Helm, 1988.
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March 1972: National Magazine began publishing a British...
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March 1972
National Magazine
began publishing a British edition of Cosmopolitan, an American magazine for women containing articles on lifestyle and fashion.
