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1963: Malaysian-born author Dulcie Gray published...

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1963

Malaysian-born author Dulcie Gray published Murder in Mind, a mystery and character study of the criminal.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

c.1590-1601: John Donne composed the famous lyrics which...

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c.1590-1601

John Donne composed the famous lyrics which were posthumously published and later known as Songs and Sonnets.
Donne, John. “Chronological Table”. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, edited by John Davy Hayward, Nonesuch Library, 1955, p. xi - xii.

: This was the peak period in France for shaving...

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Summer 1944

This was the peak period in France for shaving the heads of women as a punishment and humiliation for purportedly collaborating with the German occupying troops.
Guardian Weekly.
(2-8 November 2000): 30

1868: Anne Jemima Clough organised Lectures for...

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1868

Anne Jemima Clough organised Lectures for Ladies throughout Northern England.
Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985.
180
Borer, Mary Cathcart. Willingly to School: A History of Women’s Education. Lutterworth Press, 1976.
285

André Gide

AG was a French novelist, playwright, diarist, autobiographer, essayist, and founder of an influential literary magazine. He also wrote controversial works on sexuality and colonialism. He began publishing in the last decade of the nineteenth...

1892: Tasma (whose real name was Jessie Couvreur,...

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1892

Tasma (whose real name was Jessie Couvreur , published her novel A Knight of the White Feather.
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1891: The first volume of The Poets and the Poetry...

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1891

The first volume of The Poets and the Poetry of the Century, Alfred H. Miles 's 10-volume anthology with biocritical headnotes, appeared; the last was published in 1897.
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1668: Jean Racine's tragedy Andromaque, first staged...

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1668

Jean Racine 's tragedy Andromaque, first staged the previous year, was published; it features a powerful and admirable heroine.
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1855: Western Australia refused to accept any more...

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1855

Western Australia refused to accept any more transported female criminals.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
176-7, 213

5 July 2007: Odile Crick, British-born artist who becme...

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5 July 2007

Odile Crick , British-born artist who becme famous for her sketch of the structure of DNA, died at her home in California.
“Odile Crick”. The Independent: Obituaries, 20 July 2007.

8 September 1836: The Transcendental Club (also known as the...

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8 September 1836

The Transcendental Club (also known as the Hedge Club and the Symposium ) was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; it brought together various thinkers who were at the forefront of Transcendentalism.
Geldard, Richard G., editor. The Essential Transcendentalists. Penguin, 2005.
68, 89
The Web of American Transcendentalism. http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/index.html.
Oxford Reference. http://www.oxfordreference.com.

10 May 1689: William and Mary were crowned. Bishop Burnet...

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10 May 1689

William and Mary were crowned. Bishop Burnet preached the coronation sermon.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
4

13 April 1919: Troops under General Dyer fired into a protest...

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13 April 1919

Troops under General Dyer fired into a protest meeting in Amritsar of six thousand unarmed Indians; nearly four hundred were killed, and about 1,200 wounded in what became known as the Amritsar Massacre.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 839

18 January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference, to discuss the...

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18 January 1919

The Paris Peace Conference, to discuss the terms of armistice following World War I, officially convened.
MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. Random House, 2003.
63, 485

April 1870: Supporters of Sophia Jex-Blake's campaign...

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April 1870

Supporters of Sophia Jex-Blake 's campaign for female medical education wrote to The Times and The Englishwoman's Review asking women to petition Parliament in support of female doctors.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
120

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.
70

By April 1976: Ellen Moers published at New York a pioneering...

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By April 1976

Ellen Moers published at New York a pioneering work of literary criticism entitled Literary Women.
Coffey, Marilyn et al. “April 1976 Newsletter”. New York Woman’s Literary Salon, Apr. 1976.

January 1806: The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine,...

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January 1806

The Monthly Repository, a Dissenting magazine, began publication in London, edited by Robert Aspland .
White, Daniel E. “The Joineriana: Anna Barbauld, the Aikin Family Circle, and the Dissenting Public Sphere”. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
32
, No. 4, 1999, pp. 511-33.
531n25
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.

1903: Melanie Reizes (later, as Melanie Klein,...

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1903

Melanie Reizes (later, as Melanie Klein, a leading figure in child psychoanalysis in Britain) married Arthur Klein and moved from Vienna to Budapest.
Stevens, Gwendolyn, and Sheldon Gardner. The Women of Psychology. Schenkman, 1982, 2 vols., http://HSS.
I: 169

1730: The first cotton stockings were knitted on...

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1730

The first cotton stockings were knitted on a frame in Nottingham; thus began the industrial manufacture of hosiery.
Chambers, Jonathan David. Nottinghamshire in the Eighteenth Century, a study of life and labour under the squirearchy. 2nd edition, Frank Cass, 1966.
xii

November 1908: Bean na h-Eireann (whose title means Woman...

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November 1908

Bean na h-Eireann (whose title means Woman of Ireland) began publishing in Dublin as the organ of the nationalist group Inighnidhe na h-Eireann , Daughters of Ireland.
Haverty, Anne. Constance Markievicz: An Independent Life. Pandora, 1988.
61-2, 72-3, 77, 79

1888: Louisa Lawson launched The Dawn: A Journal...

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1888

Louisa Lawson launched The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women.
Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm.

1778: The House of Commons barred women from attending...

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1778

The House of Commons barred women from attending debates to listen from the gallery, as they had often done until then.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
248

11 May 1866: The London Stock Exchange suffered through...

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11 May 1866

The London Stock Exchange suffered through Black Friday after the bankruptcy of the bank Overend, Gurney and Company .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
287
Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
246-7, 256

1875-77: Tolstoy published Anna Karenina, one of the...

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1875-77

Tolstoy published Anna Karenina, one of the great love stories of the world,
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. Dover Publications, 1968.
195
in the Russian Messenger.
Noyes, George Rapall. Tolstoy. Dover Publications, 1968.
151, 195