Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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April 1875: Ellen Terry presented the character of Portia...
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April 1875
Ellen Terry
presented the character of Portia in an unsuccessful production of The Merchant of Veniceat the Prince of Wales Theatre
; the role became synonymous with her name.
Cheshire, David F. Portrait of Ellen Terry. Amber Lane Press, 1989.
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1822: Using silver chloride, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce...
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1822
Using silver chloride, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
of France produced the first fixed positive image that could be called a photograph.
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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October 1972: A gala performance was held at the Haymarket...
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October 1972
A gala performance was held at the Haymarket Theatre
, featuring all the leading lights of the British stage, to celebrate Dame Sybil Thorndike
's ninetieth birthday.
McLaughlin, Terence. The Gilded Lily. Cassell, 1972.
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Later 1841: Father Dominic Barberi arrived in England...
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Later 1841
Father Dominic Barberi
arrived in England to aid the Roman Catholic missions; he later became a famous missionary through his conversions, the most notable of these being John Newman
.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
229-30
10 May 1933: Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels,...
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10 May 1933
Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels
, over 40,000 people participated in burning books to cleanse German literature and root out Jewish intellectualism.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
313, 347
“Book Burning”. Holocaust Encyclopedia.
“Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings”. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
1 February 1942: Vidkun Quisling became Minister President...
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1 February 1942
Vidkun Quisling
became Minister President of Norway; he supported Hitler
so fervently (although most Norwegians identified with the other side) that his name has come to mean a traitor.
Mazower, Mark. “One of Hitler’s Inflatables”. London Review of Books, 20 Jan. 2000, pp. 30-1.
30-1
1838: John Claudius Loudon's The Suburban Gardener...
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1838
John Claudius Loudon
's The Suburban Gardener and Villa Companion appeared in volume form (after being serialised over two years).
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Autumn 1924: Educator A. S. Neill, who had been running...
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Autumn 1924
Educator A. S. Neill
, who had been running a progressive school at Hellerau in Germany, then in Austria, opened a school of the same kind called Summerhill
(from the name of the...
11 November 1911: The Society of Women Musicians held its first...
Seddon, Laura. “Patronage and the Development of Women’s Music in the Early Twentieth Century”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 68, Women’s History Network, 2012, pp. 28-32.
Seddon 28-30
4 February 2004: Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin launched...
Horton, Alex. “Channeling The Social Network, lawmaker grills Zuckerberg on his notorious beginnings”. The Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018.
Horton, Alex. “Channeling The Social Network, lawmaker grills Zuckerberg on his notorious beginnings”. The Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018.
16 April 1977: Only a year after the release of Apple I,...
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16 April 1977
Only a year after the release of Apple I, Steve Wozniak
and Steve Jobs
of Apple Computers
launched the Apple II, one of the first successful and popular personal computers.
Aley, Jim. “Apple founder dead at 56. Apple and Jobs: The Early Years”. Edmonton Journal, 6 Oct. 2011, p. A20.
A20
7 September 1968: Feminist protesters disrupted the Miss America...
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7 September 1968
Feminist protesters disrupted the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Pollitt, Katha. “Our Soft-Shelled Condition”. London Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2002, pp. 32-3.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
332
“History of BPW International”. BPW International: International Federation of Business and Professional Women.
December 1927: Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan...
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December 1927
Three months after the dancer Isadora Duncan
died at nearly fifty, as melodramatically as she had lived, her autobiography, My Life, appeared from the new publishing firm Gollancz
. It became an immediate best-seller...
15 February 1894: French anarchist Martial Bourdin was fatally...
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15 February 1894
French anarchist Martial Bourdin
was fatally injured in an apparent attempt to destroy the Royal Observatory
in Greenwich Park using a home-made bomb.
Harkness, Bruce et al. “Introduction”. The Secret Agent, edited by Bruce Harkness et al., Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. xxiii - xli.
xxiv
Cunningham, Valentine, editor. The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry and Poetics. Blackwell, 2000.
881
Senaha, Eijun. “A Life of Louisa Sarah Bevington”. The Hokkaido University Annual Report on Cultural Sciences, Vol.
101
, Aug. 2000, pp. 131-49.
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Oliver, Hermia. The International Anarchist Movement in Late Victorian London. Croom Helm, 1983.
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Sherry, Norman. Conrad’s Western World. Cambridge University Press, 1971.
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Quail, John. The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists. Granada, 1978.
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By January 1872: Gustave Moynier, an instigator of the Red...
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
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The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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10 June 1963: In a university commencement speech, US President...
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10 June 1963
In a university commencement speech, US President John F. Kennedy
(who had recently declared a unilateral end to American nuclear testing in the atmosphere) called for a re-examination of US-Soviet relations.
Sorenson, Ted, and John F. Kennedy. “Foreword”. Ask not what your country can do for you, Guardian News and Media, 2007, pp. 5-6.
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1960: The Betting and Gaming Act (which came into...
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1960
The Betting and Gaming Act (which came into force the following year) made off-course betting legal in Britain: betting shops sprang up, though their appearance was uninviting.
McKibbin, Ross. “Perhaps a Merlot”. London Review of Books, 3 Mar. 2005, pp. 16-17.
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After 1 October 1939: The Women's Auxiliary Police Corps was formed;...
