Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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30 March 1764: Parliament passed the American Duties Act...
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30 March 1764
Parliament
passed the American Duties Act (usually called either the Sugar Act or the Revenue Act): an effort to collect the tax due on molasses.
Thomas, Peter David Garner. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763-1767. Clarendon, 1975.
44-50
September 1964: Liverpool city council provided a grant for...
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September 1964
Liverpool city council provided a grant for the founding of the Everyman Theatre
, which became a centre for popular culture and radical play-writing.
Hickling, Alfred. “’You could be watching an exciting new musical while sitting on a bag of cement’”. The Guardian, 8 Sept. 2004, pp. G16 - G17.
G16
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Author profile
Anna Kavan
AK
is primarily a novelist and short story writer of the first half of the twentieth century, who based her writing quite closely on her life. In her writing, as well as in her life...
1 April 1945: 50,000 Americans landed on Okinawa; it was...
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1 April 1945
50,000 Americans landed on Okinawa; it was secured on 22 June 1945.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
230
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
566-7, 569, 573
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
879-82
17 February 1958: CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament,...
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17 February 1958
CND, or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
, was founded at a public meeting in London; it held its first march that spring, at the Easter weekend.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
299
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
By 26 March 1741: Emilie du Chatelet composed, within a month,...
Zinsser, Judith P. “Emilie du Châtelet: genius, gender, and intellectual authority”. Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition, edited by Hilda L. Smith, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 168-90.
176ff
Bodanis, David. “The scientist whom history forgot”. Guardian Weekly, 4–10 Aug. 2006, p. 10.
10
1 January 1876: The Women's Pavilion at the Centenary Exhibition...
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1 January 1876
The Women's Pavilion at the Centenary Exhibition in Philadelphia featured a number of household appliances invented by women, all patented, which were markedly ahead of their time.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
151
1958: Speaking of Women, which published feminist,...
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1958
Speaking of Women, which published feminist, mystical, and anti-vivisection articles, ended publication in London.
SL
, an obscure woman publishing in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, is known only by two texts: a book about gender issues and women's moral influence for good, and an article that sought to...
Writer or writing
Author profile
Lili Elbe
LE
, born in Denmark in 1882, was an artist rather than an author. She wrote one major work: her life narrative about her years as a man, her embrace of her female identity, and...
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
52-57, 277
3 November 1892: The first weekly number appeared in London...
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3 November 1892
The first weekly number appeared in London of Shafts: a magazine of progressive thought (founded and edited by Margaret Shurmer Sibthorp
), which aimed at a working-class and female readership, and supported women's suffrage.
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.
16 September 1992: On what became known as Black Wednesday,...
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16 September 1992
On what became known as Black Wednesday, the pound sterling was driven out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism
which tied it in with other European currencies: that is particularly the deutschmark.
Davis, Evan. “Lessons learned on ’Black Wednesday’”. BBC News: Business, 15 Sept. 2002.
1 January 1920: The League of Nations officially came into...
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1 January 1920
The League of Nations
officially came into being—without the United States, although the first suggestion for such a body had been made by President Woodrow Wilson
.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
February-March 1789: The proportion of working-class men eligible...
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February-March 1789
The proportion of working-class men eligible to vote for the Estates-General
(or parliament) in France was greater than that having the vote in England.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan, 1998.
129
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Isabella Hamilton Robinson
IHR
's diary acquired notoriety after it was found to contain details of her relationship with a younger, married doctor and after it was made public in the Divorce Court
(at a moment when divorce...
By August 1784: James Ramsay published An Essay on the Treatment...
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By August 1784
James Ramsay
published An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of the African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
54 (1784): 597
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
1975: Jacqueline Tabbick became the first woman...
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
May 1890: Walter Besant founded The Author, the journal...
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May 1890
Walter Besant
founded The Author, the journal (then monthly) of the Society of Authors
which promoted authors' interests and supported grievances against the publishing industry. Besant edited the journal until 1901.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
34, 593
June 1892: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon...
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June 1892
The Diary of a Nobody by George
and Weedon Grossmith
was published as a book in Bristol, expanded from the serial form which had appeared in Punch in 1888-9.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Grossmith
16 December 1773: Citizens dumped 340 chests of tea into the...
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16 December 1773
Citizens dumped 340 chests of tea into the harbour at Boston, Massachusetts, to protest duty imposed by the Tea Act of 10 May; this became known as the Boston Tea Party.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
68, 695
27 April 1992: Betty Boothroyd became the first woman to...
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27 April 1992
Betty Boothroyd
became the first woman to be elected Speaker of the House of Commons
; media reports made much of the fact that she had once worked in the Tiller Girls
dancing troupe.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
509
1 April 1977: Woman's World, a modestly successful monthly...
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1 April 1977
Woman's World, a modestly successful monthly magazine for young women, began publication in London. It ran until 1990.
Braithwaite, Brian, and Joan Barrell. The Business of Women’s Magazines. Associated Business Press, 1979.
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2 April-28 May 1871: The second siege of Paris took place; this...
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2 April-28 May 1871
The second siege of Paris took place; this time the besiegers were monarchists, and the defenders were the supporters of the Paris Commune
, who had ousted the monarchist National Assembly.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
288
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
202-6
Marlière, Philippe. “Globalisation before Globalisation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 13, 2 July 2015, pp. 21-2.
21
1953: The United Nations General Assembly appointed...
