Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Laura Ormiston Chant
LOC
published numerous pamphlets and speeches on social purity, temperance, and women's rights, as well as songs, a novel, and a book of poetry that includes a feminist verse novel. Her writing reflects many of...
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
100, 103-5
July 1978: Dulcie Gray won the Times Educational Supplement...
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July 1978
Dulcie Gray
won the Times Educational Supplement Information Book Award for her book on butterfly conservation, Butterflies on My Mind: Their Life and Conservation in Britain Today, with illustrations by Brian Hargreaves
and a...
Harsh economic conditions caused two-thirds of established British publishing firms to crash: authors were ruined, like Sir Walter Scott
, by the bankruptcy of Constable and Ballantyne
in Edinburgh.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
215-16
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Charlotte Montefiore
CM
published her works during the 1840s and 1850s, largely in anonymity. Though she began her literary career by editing, funding, and contributing to a series of short stories, her belief that literature should be...
18 August 1823: A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara,...
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18 August 1823
A rebellion of enslaved blacks began in Demerara, partly as a consequence of the hostility of local authorities to the activities which the Church Missionary Society
was undertaking among slaves.
Bayly, Christopher Alan. Atlas of the British Empire. Facts on File, 1989.
85
Walvin, James. Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery. Howard University Press, 1994.
xii
da Costa, Emilia Viotti. Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: the Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823. Oxford University Press, 1994.
10 January 1880: The first issue of The Modern Review: A Quarterly...
Writer or writing item
10 January 1880
The first issue of The Modern Review: A Quarterly 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.
3: 93, 95
August 1907: A World Exhibition was held in Dublin; among...
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August 1907
A World Exhibition was held in Dublin; among other things on display was the novelty of incubators for premature babies.
O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford, 1962.
110
1983: US primatologist Dian Fossey published Gorillas...
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1983
US primatologist Dian Fossey
published Gorillas in the Mist, about her experiences doing research in Rwanda.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
12 February 1767-5 June 1769: Hugh Kelly issued his periodical The Babler,...
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12 February 1767-5 June 1769
Hugh Kelly
issued his periodical The Babler, opening with the usual bow towards the Tatler and Spectator.
Kelly, Hugh. The Babler. Harrison, 1786, http://U of A Special Collections.
1887: The Dermathistic corset with leather facing...
Building and people item
1887
The Dermathistic corset with leather facing became available in the UK for women who exercised.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
125
31 July 1797: The London Corresponding Society's final...
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31 July 1797
The LondonCorresponding Society
's final public meeting was dispersed as illegal by magistrates.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
412-3
Writer or writing
Author profile
Catherine Maria Grey
CMG
was a popular silver-fork novelist, most commonly known as Mrs. Grey to her readers. Her works are often misattributed to her daughter Anna Maria Grey
, or to the unrelated Maria Georgina Grey
(1816-1906)...
18 March 1871: The rule of the Paris Commune began when...
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18 March 1871
The rule of the ParisCommune
began when Paris workers resisted the provisional National Assembly
's efforts to disarm the city by seizing firearms and 2,000 cannons from the National Guard.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
287
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.
202-5
By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...
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By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,
Saturday Review. Chawton.
28.739 (25 December 1869): 832-3
17 December 1983: A massive car bomb exploded in the early...
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17 December 1983
A massive car bomb exploded in the early afternoon in a London street close to Harrods department store. The IRA
later claimed responsibility.
MacLeod, Donald. “London: Past Terror Attacks”. Guardian Unlimited, 7 July 2005.
June 2001: Australian Kate Grenville won the Orange...
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June 2001
Australian Kate Grenville
won the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel The Idea of Perfection.
Grenville, Kate. “Jet lag, tea and horrid photos”. Guardian Unlimited Books, 8 June 2001.
14 July 1790: Richard Price, speaking at a Bastille Day...
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14 July 1790
Richard Price
, speaking at a Bastille Day tavern dinner, praised the French revolutionary authorities for intending to renounce war as an instrument of policy, and looked forward to a United States of the World.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
123
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
124
1957: Leicester University Press was founded in...
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1957
Leicester University Press
was founded in the same year that the university was granted a charter of independence.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
191
1963: Collins published Patricia Moyes's detective...
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1963
Collins
published Patricia Moyes
's detective novel Murder à la mode, which takes place amid the fashion industry, for its Crime Club
.
