Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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18 July 1848: The Sisters of St John's House was established...
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
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Poovey, Mary, and Florence Nightingale. “Introduction”. Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought, edited by Mary Poovey and Mary Poovey, New York University Press, 1993.
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Cartwright, Frederick F. et al. The Story of King’s College Hospital and its Medical School. Editor Britten, D. J., Farrand Press, 1991.
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Abel-Smith, Brian. A History of the Nursing Profession. Heinemann, 1960.
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Williams, Katherine. “From Sarah Gamp to Florence Nightingale: A Critical Study of Hospital Nursing Systems from 1840 to 1897”. Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies, Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 41-75.
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By September 1935: There were two million unemployed in Britain,...
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By September 1935
There were two million unemployed in Britain, with one-and-a-half million more on Poor Law Relief, and the numbers still increasing.
Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.
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Author profile
May Sinclair
MS
, a major figure in the development of Modernism, wrote more than two dozen works ranging from novels (twenty-one of them), poetry, and collections of short stories to polemical pamphlets, philosophical treatises, translations, biography...
By October 1985: Keri Hulme's novel The Bone People was published...
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By October 1985
Keri Hulme
's novel The Bone People was published in England. It won the Booker Prize over the objections of Nina Bawden
, who hated its depiction of violence to a child.
“Tears, tiffs and triumphs”. Guardian Unlimited, 6 Sept. 2008.
28 June 1967: The National Health Service (Family Planning)...
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28 June 1967
The National Health Service (Family Planning) Act (1967) allowed local health authorities to give advice on contraception and to supply contraceptive substances and devices for family planning.
Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
(1967): 927-8
1967: A bicycle race at Otley in Yorkshire, including...
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1967
A bicycle race at Otley in Yorkshire, including male and female competitors, was won by Beryl Burton
(who as a child had suffered from paralysis following a bout of rheumatic fever).
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1924: The British tax inspectorate was opened to...
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1924
The British tax inspectorate was opened to women.
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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Evans, Dorothy. Women and the Civil Service. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, 1934.
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17 April 1695: Sor (Sister) Juana Inez de la Cruz, nun and...
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17 April 1695
Sor (Sister) Juana Inez de la Cruz
, nun and writer, the greatest poet the American continent produced in the seventeenth century,
“The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project”. Dartmouth College: Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
died in her convent in Mexico City.
“The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project”. Dartmouth College: Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
1680: John Dryden, with others, published a collaborative...
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1680
John Dryden
, with others, published a collaborative verse translation of Ovid
's Epistles (or Heroides).
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
1724: John Maubray published The Female Physician,...
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1724
John Maubray
published The Female Physician, Containing all the Diseases incident to that Sex, in Virgins, Wives, and Widows . . . to which is added, The Whole Art of New improv'd Midwifery
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2026, Numbered catalogues.
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Writer or writing
Author profile
An Collins
AC
was an obscure seventeenth-century religious poet, whose work has survived in a single copy of a single publication.
April 1838: The National Gallery moved into its new facility...
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April 1838
The National Gallery
moved into its new facility at Charing Cross.
Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross, editor. English Art, 1800-1870. Clarendon, 1959.
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By late October 1942: C. S. Lewis published the book version of...
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By late October 1942
C. S. Lewis
published the book version of The Screwtape Letters, an epistolary fiction in which a senior devil, Screwtape, offers advice to his nephew, a junior devil, on tempting and ultimately damning a...
1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...
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1963-4
Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
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30 March 1730: Henry Fielding's The Author's Farce opened...
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
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1881: A religious novel published this year with...
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1881
A religious novel published this year with 1882 on its title-page, Nellie; or Seeking Goodly Pearls by Mrs Meredith, has been wrongly ascribed to Louisa Anne Meredith
, but is actually by the Evangelical...
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
By December 1916: Bessie Marchant, who had been publishing...
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By December 1916
Bessie Marchant
, who had been publishing adventure stories for girls and for boys since around 1892, issued one of several books using First World War experience: A Girl Munition Worker,
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
41345 (8 December 1916): 4
30 November 1971: The military government of Libya, after two...
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30 November 1971
The military government of Libya, after two years in power, nationalized the British Petroleum Company
; Libya and Iraq severed relations with the UK.
