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11 September 1709: In a year of difficult military conditions...

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11 September 1709

In a year of difficult military conditions and friction among members of the anti-French alliance, the Duke of Marlborough won a much trumpeted but in fact somewhat inconclusive victory near the village of Malplaquet.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

26 August 1793: The Revolutionary Republican Women read a...

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26 August 1793

The Revolutionary Republican Women read a petition to the French National Convention .
Godineau, Dominique. The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution. Translator Streip, Katherine, University of California Press, 1998.
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February 1876: Emma Paterson launched, as editor, the first...

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February 1876

Emma Paterson launched, as editor, the first issue of the Women's Union Journal, a monthly publication of the Women's Protective and Provident League , an organization founded by Paterson in London in July 1874...

July 1842: Edwin Chadwick presented his Report on the...

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July 1842

Edwin Chadwick presented his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain to the House of Lords .
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Woods, Robert, and John Woodward. “Mortality, Poverty and the Environment”. Urban Disease and Mortality in Nineteenth-Century England, edited by Robert Woods and John Woodward, St Martin’s Press, 1984, pp. 19-36.
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Wohl, Anthony S. Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Harvard University Press, 1983.
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1730s: In this decade poetry became the genre in...

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1730s

In this decade poetry became the genre in which greatest numbers of women embarked on the publication or circulation of their writings.
Stanton, Judith Phillips. “Statistical Profile of Women Writing in English from 1660 to 1800”. Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, edited by Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch, Greenwood Press, 1988, pp. 247-54.
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1797: A book by T. Wilson entitled The Use of Circulating...

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1797

A book by T. Wilson entitled The Use of Circulating Libraries Considered gave detailed advice on setting up such a library as a business.
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.
Benedict, Barbara M. “Jane Austen and the Culture of Circulating Libraries: The Construction of Female Literacy”. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women’s Fiction" and Social Engagement, edited by Paula R. Backscheider, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, pp. 147-00.
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November 1882: The first issue of the monthly Longman's...

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November 1882

The first issue of the monthly Longman's Magazine was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 430, 438
Briggs, Asa. A History of Longmans and Their Books 1724 - 1990. Longevity in Publishing. British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2008.
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22 February 1858: Dion Boucicault's Jessie Brown; or The Relief...

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22 February 1858

Dion Boucicault 's Jessie Brown; or The Relief of Lucknow was first performed at Wallack's Theatre , New York.
Boucicault, Dion. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Plays, edited by Peter Thomson, Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. Various pages.
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1956: The National Childbirth Trust was founded...

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1956

The National Childbirth Trust was founded in Britain with the aim of advising and supporting first-time mothers through pregnancy, breast-feeding (of which it was and remains an advocate), and childcare.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1775: The Old Bailey Sessions Papers, accounts...

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1775

The Old Bailey Sessions Papers, accounts of criminal trials which were previously mere hasty, topical pamphlets to be sold on the streets, attained the status of official court records.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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By July 1794: William Godwin published his best-known novel,...

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By July 1794

William Godwin published his best-known novel, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 11 (1794): 290-6
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
6 (1758): 170-1
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.
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.

1866: A Select Committee investigated Theatrical...

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1866

A Select Committee investigated Theatrical Licenses and Regulations.
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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12 February 1829: At a meeting held at the Dublin Rotunda,...

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12 February 1829

At a meeting held at the Dublin Rotunda, the Catholic Association voted to dissolve itself, since its object, Catholic Emancipation, was as good as achieved.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
2: 273, 275

Frances Trollope

Frances Trollope is best known for her novels and travel writing about early nineteenth-century America. She was also known for her outspoken social reform novels, and for her depictions of independent, intelligent, vulgar and...
Frances Trollope Photograph of a painting of Frances Trollope by Auguste Hervieu, c. 1832, seated in a red upholstered chair, against a dark background. She is wearing a dark red-brown dress with blue and gold cuffs, a blue and gold buckle on the waistband, and large lace collar matching the bonnet that covers her dark, smooth, middle-parted hair. National Portrait Gallery.

Between May 1803 and 1804: William Cowper's Life and Posthumous Writings...

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Between May 1803 and 1804

William Cowper 's Life and Posthumous Writings were published in three volumes.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
(1802) 73: 433

7 February 1992: A fourteen-year-old rape victim was barred...

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7 February 1992

A fourteen-year-old rape victim was barred from leaving Ireland to procure an abortion in England; the case became internationally known.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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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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Elizabeth Siddal

Through her work as model and muse, ES has been firmly ensconced as an icon of Pre-Raphaelitism. However, recent feminist reassessments of her visual art and poetry are reclaiming her as artistic subject rather than...
Elizabeth Siddal Black-and-white drawing of Elizabeth Siddal seated with her right elbow placed in the centre of a book and her hand on her chin.

1834: A parliamentary committee investigating public...

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1834

A parliamentary committee investigating public intemperance failed to offer legislative solutions to drunkeness.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
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By 1943: 443,000 women staffed the Auxiliary Territorial...

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By 1943

443,000 women staffed the Auxiliary Territorial Service(ATS) , the Women's Auxiliary Air Force(WAAF) , and the Women's Royal Navy Service(WRNS) .
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
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1854: Scottish-born Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910),...

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1854

Scottish-born Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910), who had emigrated to Adelaide in Australia with her parents at the age of thirteen, published at London her first novel, Clara Morison. Set in Adelaide, it is the...

February 1959: A non-deferential interview of Prime Minister...

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February 1959

A non-deferential interview of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan by broadcaster Robin Day is credited with first making television a significant part of the political process in Britain.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
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Mount, Ferdinand. “Living with Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Djuna Barnes

Best-known for her novel Nightwood, 1936, about her fellow Americans in Paris, DB wrote in a number of other genres: plays, short stories, poetry, and journalism. Other works like the Ladies Almanack defy generic...
Djuna Barnes Black and white photograph of Djuna Barnes, shown from the waist up, with her head turned slightly and one hand on her hip. She is wearing a polka-dotted blouse under a black jacket, large pearl earrings, dark lipstick, and a black hat with a ribbon around it and a narrow brim.

August 1899: The anopheles malarial mosquito was discovered...

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August 1899

The anopheles malarial mosquito was discovered and identified in stagnant pools by Sir Ronald Ross , head of a malaria research expedition in Sierra Leone.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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26 June 1846: The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert...

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26 June 1846

The Corn Laws were repealed by Sir Robert Peel 's Conservative government, after much agitation by groups such as the Anti-Corn Law League and in face of the growing urgency of the Great Famine in...

1912: The Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial...

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1912

The Royal Commission on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes , which met from 1909 to 1912, advised equality for women regarding divorce criteria.
Wilkinson, Alan. The Church of England and the First World War. SPCK, 1978.
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