Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1872: The Central Committee of the National Society...
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
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Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Brock, William H. Science for All: Studies in the History of Victorian Science and Education. Variorum, 1996.
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1797: Thomas Gisborne's Enquiry into the Duties...
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1797
Thomas Gisborne
's Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (a reaction to the writings of radicals like Wollstonecraft
) was published.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 22 (1798): 273-9
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Mary Latter
ML
, a mid-eighteenth-century woman living in the provinces, made no secret of writing for money. She is obsessive and wordy in style, interesting mainly for her dogged and persistent struggle to succeed. Her characteristic...
1876: A group of Scotswomen who had been frustrated...
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1876
A group of Scotswomen who had been frustrated in their desire to attend university founded St George's Hall Classes, to offer teaching to university level, either by attendance or by correspondence courses. Students at...
7 May 1855: Painter Joanna Mary Boyce's Elgiva was hung...
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
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McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
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Mary Louisa Molesworth
MLM
, writing in the later nineteenth century, was immensely prolific and successful as a writer for children. Of her publications (just over a hundred titles) only a few novels and volumes of stories are...
31 March 1807: The Duke of Portland, a Tory, formed the...
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31 March 1807
The Duke of Portland
, a Tory, formed the British government for the second time.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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By September 1761: Edward Thompson published a scurrilous poem,...
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By September 1761
Edward Thompson
published a scurrilous poem, The Meretriciad.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
12 (1762): 201-3
Crouch, Kimberly. “The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies?”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 58-78.
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1872: Both entry scholarships to the Slade School...
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1872
Both entry scholarships to the Slade School of Art
were awarded to female applicants.
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Victorian Women Artists. Women’s Press, 1987.
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1887: The Anatomical Society of Great Britain was...
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
411
20 March 1883: Jan Matzeliger, a young immigrant to the...
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20 March 1883
Jan Matzeliger
, a young immigrant to the USA from Dutch Guiana (now Surinam), whose father was Dutch and whose mother was Black, received a patent for the shoe-lasting machine he invented.
Tenner, Edward. “A Place for Hype”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 33-4.
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3 May 1606: An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made...
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3 May 1606
An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players made a powerful bid to prevent swearing on stage.
Dobson, Michael. “For his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields”. London Review of Books, 10 May 2007, pp. 3-8.
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1806: Brislington House, the first purpose-built...
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1806
Brislington House
, the first purpose-built lunatic asylum in England, designed for upper-class clients, three miles from Bristol, was completed for Edward Long Fox
.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Edith Lyttelton
Edith Lyttelton's prominent position in society helped to draw attention to her first and best-known play, Warp and Woof, 1904, which took up the issue of sweated labour. Her dramatic oeuvre includes several morality...
5 May 1718: The Free-Thinker printed a letter from three...
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5 May 1718
The Free-Thinker printed a letter from three supposed correspondents in favour of single women, who, they said, were wedded to Philosophy; which is indeed the most perfect State of Freedom.
Italia, Iona. Philosophers, Knights-Errant, Coquettes and Old Maids. Cambridge University, 1997.
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August 1946: The Women's Timber Corps disbanded....
Twinch, Carol. Women on the Land: Their Story During Two World Wars. Lutterworth, 1990.
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4 January 1645: The official Directory for Public Worship,...
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4 January 1645
The official Directory for Public Worship, doing away with every feast or fast of the Church of England
except Sunday, was published on this day, though it was not distributed until August.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
238-9
March 1972: In the USA the Equal Rights Amendment was...
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March 1972
In the USA the Equal Rights Amendment was ratified by the Senate
. A number of states ratified it too, but it had its opposers, notably Phyllis Schlafly
.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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1905: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett published, as...
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1905
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
published, as Mrs George Corbett, the novel The Marriage Market: A Series of Confessions Compiled from the Diary of a Society Go-Between.
1899: A collection of poetry by Maxwell Gray, The...
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1899
A collection of poetry by Maxwell Gray
, The Forest Chapel, and Other Poems, was dedicated to Queen Victoria
.
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.
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.
21 September 1937: J. R. R. Tolkien published a book he had...
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21 September 1937
J. R. R. Tolkien
published a book he had originally written for his children, The Hobbit. Its steadily increasing long-term popularity launched him on a literary career alongside his academic work.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 September 2010
21 July 1683: William, Lord Russell, husband of the letter-writer...
