Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1933: American Ginger Rogers (real name Virginia...
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1933
American Ginger Rogers
(real name Virginia Katherine McMath) and Fred Astaire
made their first movie, Flying Down to Rio: the beginning of a famous screen partnership.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
3 September 1944: Brussels was liberated from Nazi occupation...
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3 September 1944
Brussels was liberated from Nazi occupation by British forces.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
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Donnelly, Mark. Britain in the Second World War. Routledge, 1999.
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1937: The report of the Joint Council of Midwifery...
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1937
The report of the Joint Council of Midwifery
advocated more strenuous measures to combat the sale of abortifacient drugs.
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm, 1988.
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18 September 1961: Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the...
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18 September 1961
Dag Hammarskjöld
, Secretary-General of the United Nations
, was killed in a plane crash near Ndola in the then Northern Rhodesia
Hughes, Matthew. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 9 Aug. 2001, pp. 32-3.
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1922: Anna Freud presented a paper to the Vienna...
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1922
Anna Freud
presented a paper to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
entitled Beating Phantasies and Day Dreams, on the basis of which she was accepted as a member.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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1 June 1809: Samuel Taylor Coleridge began publishing...
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1 June 1809
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
began publishing his periodical The Friend. It ran till 15 March 1810 before being rewritten and issued as a book in 1818.
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.
1859: On the death of his father, Ferdinand II,...
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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1952: Psychologist Erik Erikson published Childhood...
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1952
Psychologist Erik Erikson
published Childhood and Society, in which he hoped that his way of looking would bring children and women back into social history.
Dinnage, Rosemary. “Streamlined Smiles”. London Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2000, pp. 32-3.
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June 1941: Clothes rationing was introduced in Brit...
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June 1941
Clothes rationing was introduced in Britain.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
chronology, 73, 154
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Sarah Gardner
SG
, a stage performer during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, wrote two comedies (one highly original, the other the reverse), one farce, a number of poems, and a couple of short prose...
1986: June Hemer and Ann Stanyer edited Survival...
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1986
June Hemer
and Ann Stanyer
edited Survival Guide for Widows, which collected women's personal experiences of widowhood, including a contribution from Mary Stott
(whose husband died suddenly twenty years before this).
1856: Ralph Waldo Emerson's travel book and social...
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1856
Ralph Waldo Emerson
's travel book and social study English Traits appeared.
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.
1 April 1918: The Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) was founded...
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1 April 1918
The Women's Royal Air Force
(WRAF) was founded to employ those women who had worked at air stations during the First World War as members of the British naval or military female forces, the Women's...
December 1966: The Union for Democratic Control (which had...
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December 1966
The Union for Democratic Control
(which had been founded in August 1914 as an internationally minded, anti-war organization aimed at influencing British foreign policy) was wound up.
“Union of Democratic Control (1914-1966)”. Working Class Movement Library: U.D.C. pamphlets and leaflets 1914-1922.
10 December 2004: Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel, both based...
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10 December 2004
Linda B. Buck
and Richard Axel
, both based in the USA, were jointly awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.
The Nobel Foundation. Nobel E-Museum.
October 1983: The Women's Review of Books began publication...
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October 1983
The Women's Review of Books began publication as a feminist reviewing journal on the model of The New York Review of Books.
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
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1912: The Jewish League for Women's Suffrage was...
Burman, Rickie. “’She Looketh Well to the Ways of Her Household’: The Changing Role of Jewish Women in Religious Life”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 234-59.
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1820: In Washington, DC, the first boarding school...
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1820
In Washington, DC, the first boarding school for black girls opened under the direction of a fifteen-year-old female teacher.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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1897: Samuel Butler published The Authoress of...
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1897
Samuel Butler
published The Authoress of the Odyssey, a book calculated to offend the entire establishment
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
of imperial Britain with its claim that the second great character-building Greek epic had been written by a woman.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
25 February 1570: Pope Pius V issued his papal bull Regnans...
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25 February 1570
Pope Pius V
issued his papal bull Regnans in excelsis, excommunicating Elizabeth I
and releasing her subjects from their allegiance to her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
21 October 1976: The announcement was made of the award of...
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21 October 1976
The announcement was made of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to US novelist Saul Bellow
.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 October 2014
30 December 1878: Henry Irving and Ellen Terry began their...
Cheshire, David F. Portrait of Ellen Terry. Amber Lane Press, 1989.
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Manvell, Roger. Ellen Terry. Heinemann, 1968.
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19 May 1920: The House of Commons passed a resolution...
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19 May 1920
The House of Commons
passed a resolution stating that women should have equal access to employment and receive equal pay.
Evans, Dorothy. Women and the Civil Service. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1934.
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Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
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1912: The Women's Co-operative Guild won their...
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1912
The Women's Co-operative Guild
won their campaign for a minimum wage for female employees of Co-operative stores.
Blaszak, Barbara J. The Matriarchs of England’s Cooperative Movement: A Study in Gender Politics and Female Leadership, 1883-1921. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
