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14 May 1915: Woman's Opinion began weekly publication...

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14 May 1915

Woman's Opinion began weekly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1982: Tim Waterstone launched a new UK bookshop...

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1982

Tim Waterstone launched a new UK bookshop chain called Waterstone's , with the aim of offering a larger range of titles than his competitors.
Kean, Danuta. “The end of the affair”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec. 2005–28 Feb. 2006, pp. 145-7.
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Caryl Churchill

CC , widely recognised as one of the top contemporary British dramatists, has written plays for radio, television, and the stage. Many of her plays are developed in workshop settings, in collaboration with theatre groups...
Caryl Churchill Black-and-white photo of Caryl Churchill holding a mug of tea outside, 13 January 1975.

1958: Raymond Williams published his influential...

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1958

Raymond Williams published his influential work Culture and Society, an analysis of the development of modern social, industrial, and intellectual structures in Britain.
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1921: Melanie Klein moved to Berlin at the request...

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1921

Melanie Klein moved to Berlin at the request of Karl Abraham and joined the staff at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute as a child analyst.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
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Jemima Kindersley

JK is an original and compelling writer, both in her travel book (the earliest travel narrative by an Englishwoman to deal with South America, Africa, and India, written in 1764-9 and published...

1916: Francis Meynell, with the help of Victoria...

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1916

Francis Meynell , with the help of Victoria House Publishing , founded the Pelican Press .
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. Faber and Faber, 1971.
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1895: Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland, Maine, began...

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1895

Thomas Bird Mosher of Portland, Maine, began publishing The Bibelot. A Reprint of Poetry & Prose for Book Lovers, a monthly series later collected as an annual volume, of exquisitely produced editions in tiny press-runs.
“An Exhibition of Books from the Press of Thomas Bird Mosher, from the collection of Norman H. Strouse, January 16th - March 12th 1967”. The Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square.

Anna Swanwick

Publishing in the mid and later nineteenth century, AS won fame firstly as a scholar and translator from German and then from ancient Greek. Her work for social causes (especially for the cause of women)...
Anna Swanwick Photograph of Anna Swanwick's grave marker. The marker is a high light grey column, with lists of names carved into each of the sides and painted in black.

Arabella Shore

AS was a poet, translator, and occasional critic who died at the end of the nineteenth century. Like her sister Louisa Catherine , she was chiefly interested in public and national topics.

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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1856: The cardigan was invented by Lord Cardigan...

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1856

The cardigan was invented by Lord Cardigan to combat the intense cold during the Crimean War.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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January 1980: Seven feminists founded Sheba Publishing...

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January 1980

Seven feminists founded Sheba Publishing in London.
Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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Cadman, Eileen et al. Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers, Publishers and Distributors. Minority Press-Group, 1981.
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17 September 1593: Thomas Nashe's prose fiction The Unfortunate...

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17 September 1593

Thomas Nashe 's prose fiction The Unfortunate Traveller was entered in the Stationers' Register .
Arber, Edward, editor. A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London 1554-1660, A. D. Privately Printed, 1875–1894, 5 vols.

Joan Whitrow

JW , a Quaker and later an Independent pamphleteer in the post-Restoration period of reaction, is remarkable both for the family politics and religious feeling of her account of the deaths of two of her...

By Summer 1884: Helen Hunt Jackson, activist on behalf of...

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By Summer 1884

Helen Hunt Jackson , activist on behalf of native Americans, published her novel Ramona, set in California, only a little more than a year before her death of cancer.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.

August 1879: The first commercial telephone exchange in...

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August 1879

The first commercial telephone exchange in the UK opened at Coleman Street, London.
Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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Williams, Trevor I. A Short History of Twentieth-Century Technology, c.1900-c.1950. Clarendon, 1982.
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Trotter, David. “The Person in the Phone Booth”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 2, 28 Jan. 2010, pp. 20-2.
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1880s: Social purity organizations began their vigorous...

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1880s

Social purity organizations began their vigorous campaign to control the sexuality of the young.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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16 February 1728: Henry Fielding's first play, Love in Several...

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16 February 1728

Henry Fielding 's first play, Love in Several Masques, opened on stage.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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Mary Seymour Montague:

MSM is the almost certainly pseudonymous author of an eighteenth-century essay in four verse epistles in praise and defence of women.

July 1865: A general election was held in Britain; campaigning...

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July 1865

A general election was held in Britain; campaigning was rendered eventful by distress and unrest in industrial areas, and controversy over the prospect of a new Reform Bill.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
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January 1869: School, Tom Robertson's adaption of Roderich...

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January 1869

School, Tom Robertson 's adaption of Roderich Benedix 's German Aschenbrödel, opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
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December 1894: The monthly Sylvia's Journal (launched on...

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December 1894

The monthly Sylvia's Journal (launched on 31 December 1864 as The Young Englishwoman) ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
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Palmegiano, Eugenia M. Women and British Periodicals, 1832-1867: A Bibliography. Garland, 1976.
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Mary Cholmondeley

MC wrote mainly popular fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that was often both melodramatic and satiric. Her corpus includes novels, short stories, family memoirs, and some articles. It was largely ignored...