Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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May 1893: The Royal British Nurses' Association, which...
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May 1893
The Royal British Nurses' Association
, which added the word Royal to its name in 1891, became the first association of professional women to be granted a charter of incorporation; however, they were not granted...
8 June 1730: James Thomson published by subscription The...
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8 June 1730
James Thomson
published by subscription The Seasons as a four-fold poem, with A Hymn on the Seasons and William Kent
's illustrations.
Thomson, James, 1700 - 1748. Winter. J. Millan, 1726.
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Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
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29 May 1896: James Connolly formed the Irish Socialist...
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
17 November 1955: The first live television programme from...
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17 November 1955
The first live television programme from Northern Ireland was broadcast.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Author profile
Agnes Wheeler
AW
was one of several women who wrote during the eighteenth century about dialect forms of English. She published two books and left unpublished writings as well. She wrote plays and sketches of local life...
1984: The publishing company Saqi Books was founded...
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1984
The publishing company Saqi Books
was founded in London by André Gaspard
and Mai Ghoussoub
(sculptor and writer) to bridge the divide between Middle Eastern and Western cultures. It publishes a highly international list.
“About Us”. Saqi Books.
“About Us”. Alsaqi Bookshop.
al-Shaykh, Hanan. “The week in books”. The Guardian, 24 May 2008, p. Review 5.
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October 1885: Aunt Judy's Magazine ceased publication;...
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Agnes Beaumont
AB
left a single text, an autobiographical account of her struggles with her father over her right to choose her own religious sect and of the accusations levelled against her after his sudden death, because...
1952: Angus Wilson published Hemlock and After,...
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1952
Angus Wilson
published Hemlock and After, which Margaret Drabble
in 2008 called one of the first gay novels to hit the postwar world.
“Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, 3 May 2008, pp. Review 4 - 6.
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“Back—due to popular demand”. The Guardian, 3 May 2008, pp. Review 4 - 6.
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September-October 1969: The journal Socialist Woman was launched...
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September-October 1969
The journal Socialist Woman was launched by women's groups in Nottingham and London and by the International Marxist Group
(IMG).
Ross, Elizabeth Arledge, and Miriam L. Bearse. A Chronology of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. Editors Boyle, Karen E. and The Oral History Project Advisory Group, The Feminist Archive, 1996, http://Bodleian.
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14 January 1933: The Lancet published An Investigation of...
Balaam, Marie-Clare, and Barbara Crowther. “Menopause Exposed: Women Surveying Women”. Women’s History Magazine, Vol.
62
, 1 Mar.–31 May 2010, pp. 19-25.
19-25 and n1
November 1935: Boriswood Limited was in court again (having...
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November 1935
Boriswood Limited
was in court again (having only a year earlier been fined for publication of Boy), this time for publication of a scientific and philosophical study, The Sexual Impulse by Edward Charles
.
Craig, Alec. The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. George Allen and Unwin, 1962.
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Thomas, Donald. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. Frederick A. Praeger, 1969.
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19 July 1913: Skywriting by aeroplane, a new form of advertising,...
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19 July 1913
Skywriting by aeroplane, a new form of advertising, was first introduced by Milton J. Bryant
in the skies over Seattle, Washington.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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1953: New Zealand poet Mary Stanley published Starveling...
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1953
New Zealand poet Mary Stanley
published Starveling Year, the only collection of her poetry to appear.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
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Garner, Les. Stepping Stones to Women’s Liberty: Feminist Ideas in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918. Heinemann Educational, 1984.
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February 1940: Paper rationing was implemented, restricting...
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February 1940
Paper rationing was implemented, restricting publishers' supply of paper to 60 per cent of their pre-war supplies.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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6-16 July 1995: The massacre and mass-grave burial of 7,000...
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6-16 July 1995
The massacre and mass-grave burial of 7,000 Muslims by Serbs at Srebrenica in a United Nationssafe area called into question the UN's ability to keep the peace or to mitigate war.
Guardian Weekly.
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1883: William Morris published with Reeves of London...
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1883
William Morris
published with Reeves
of London the first of his Chants for Socialists: No 1. The Day is Coming.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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13 June 1971: The New York Times began printing the Pentagon...
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13 June 1971
The New York Times began printing the Pentagon Papers dossier compiled by Daniel Ellsberg
as he worked for the US administration on an internal history of American involvement in Vietnam.
Johnson, Chalmers. “Who’s in charge?”. London Review of Books, 6 Feb. 2003, pp. 7-9.
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13 September 1956: Ted Hughes published his poetry volume The...
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13 September 1956
Ted Hughes
published his poetry volume The Hawk in the Rain.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
13 September 2010
20 April 1904: The Church of Ireland, responding to maltreatment...
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20 April 1904
The Church of Ireland
, responding to maltreatment of the Jewish community of Limerick, complained to the British government of the persecution of Protestants and Jews in Ireland.
Tóibín, Colm. “’What is your nation, if I may ask?’”. London Review of Books, 30 Sept. 1999, pp. 37-39.
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1922: William Penn, the well-known London Quaker...
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1922
William Penn, the well-known London Quaker
who emigrated to America and founded the state of Pennsylvania, was the subject of a play by Mary Lucy Pendered
.
