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December 1922: Miss E. S. Daniels was dismissed from her...

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December 1922

Miss E. S. Daniels was dismissed from her post as a health visitor with Edmonton District Council , London, for telling mothers where to get birth control knowledge.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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1 August 1834: The Slavery Abolition Act or Emancipation...

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1 August 1834

The Slavery Abolition Act or Emancipation Bill came into effect in the British Empire.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
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Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
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Williams, Helen Maria. A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade. T. Cadell, 1788, http://BL.
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Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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Halbersleben, Karen I. Women’s Participation in the British Antislavery Movement, 1824-1865. Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.
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Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Croom Helm, 1986, pp. 41-67.
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Dorothea Gerard

DG was a novelist and romance-writer whose general conservatism co-existed with a piercing eye for relations across national and ethnic divides, for antisemitism and other forms of prejudice. She was the author, too, of an...

29 February 1724: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate...

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29 February 1724

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunate Mistress, or . . . Lady Roxana, his second fictional autobiography of a woman living on her wits.
Moore, John Robert. A Checklist of the Writings of Daniel Defoe. Indiana University Press, 1960.
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8 March 1911: On the first International Women's Day, marches...

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8 March 1911

On the first International Women's Day, marches were held in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland to protest women's lack of representation in trades unions.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 March 2010

By September 1779: John Birch published Considerations on the...

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By September 1779

John Birch published Considerations on the Efficacy of Electricity, in removing Female Obstructions. To which are annexed, Cases with Remarks.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
48 (1779): 237

1828: The first public baths in England opened...

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1828

The first public baths in England opened in Liverpool.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
26: 233, 3: 519-20

About 1799-1800: London publisher John Marshall produced the...

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About 1799-1800

London publisher John Marshall produced the earliest commercial miniature library for children, The Juvenile or Child's Library: a boxed set of tiny books suitable for an early reader, ideal for a child to teach...

1843: William Hallowes Miller developed new standard...

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1843

William Hallowes Miller developed new standard measures for England.
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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1879: A new cloak from Spence and Co., the Polarium,...

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1879

A new cloak from Spence and Co. , the Polarium, was constructed of a faithful imitation of fur.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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October 1916: The Dilution of Labour Bulletin, an illustrated...

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October 1916

The Dilution of Labour Bulletin, an illustrated (and favourable) report on the role of women as replacements for men in munitions work, began monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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16 June 2016: Jo Cox, a Labour member of parliament and...

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16 June 2016

Jo Cox , a Labour member of parliament and a young mother, was attacked in the street in Birstall (part of her constituency). She was shot and stabbed repeatedly: a hate crime perpetrated by a...

Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney , though American, is best known as a Paris salonnière. She specialized in memoirs and pensées, though she also produced poetry, drama, novels, essays, and dialogues. Writing primarily in French but also...
Natalie Clifford Barney Half-length painting of Natalie Clifford Barney by her mother, Alice Pike Barney, 1896. She faces the viewer directly: blonde, blue-eyed, wearing a black dress, fur cape, and blue velvet hat with a tall feather. Her hair, divided in the centre, is roughly brushed back.

1895: F. F. Montrésor began her publishing career...

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1895

F. F. Montrésor began her publishing career this year with two novels, of which The One Who Looked On went through six editions in three years.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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.

Lady Lucy Herbert

LLH was a Roman Catholic who became a prioress and published at least three devotional works during the early eighteenth century. She may also have written advice on teaching in the convent.
Lady Lucy Herbert Photograph of a print of Lady Lucy Herbert from a Jacobite broadside, in the early 1690s before she became a nun. She stands before an outdoor background wearing a simple, long, dark gown with white at the neck and wrists, and a dark cloak. Her dark hair is pulled back except for two tiny curls. Below a printed caption reads: "Lady Lucy Herbert, Sister of Winifred Countess of Nithsdale."

1673: The first recorded slave revolt on a serious...

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1673

The first recorded slave revolt on a serious scale took place, in Jamaica; the instigators were said to be Coromantines, that is people shipped from Fort Cormantine in what is now Ghana.
Behn, Aphra. “Editorial Materials”. Oroonoko, edited by Joanna Lipking, W. W. Norton, 1997, p. Various pages.
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Barbara Pym

BP was a distinguished, understatedly comic novelist of the twentieth century, whose autobiographical writings (diaries, letters, and notebooks) were published only after her death.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
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Pym, Barbara. “Editorial Materials”. A Very Private Eye, edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym, Macmillan, 1984, p. various pages.
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Having achieved moderate success during her early career...

Ann Taylor Gilbert

ATG , her next sister and two brothers, wrote and published seventy-three books. The first and most famous title appeared in 1804-5. Most of these works were collaboratively authored in various combinations. They were mainly...
Ann Taylor Gilbert Black and white illustration from pastel of Ann Taylor Gilbert by her son Josiah Gilbert, which he used in editing her Autobiography in 1874. She is sitting in a chair upholstered in patterned material. She is wearing a white bonnet tied in a bow under her chin, circular glasses, and a black dress. She is sitting with her head slightly inclined, with her hands together and her fingers laced.

8 December 1941: US Representative Jeanette Rankin cast the...

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8 December 1941

US Representative Jeanette Rankin cast the sole dissenting vote in Congress against the American declaration of war on Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
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26 July 1849: A convention at Kingston, Ontario, proposed...

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26 July 1849

A convention at Kingston, Ontario, proposed annexing Canada with the US, following a depression caused by the loss of Canadian economic preference in the UK.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 466
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
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1 November 1915: The Women's International League (British...

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1 November 1915

The Women's International League (British Section) was founded at a conference held at Westminster.
Ducey, Mitchell F., editor. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.
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Liddington, Jill. “The Women’s Peace Crusade: The History of a Forgotten Campaign”. Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb, edited by Dorothy, 1923 - 2011 Thompson, Virago, 1983, pp. 180 - 98, 244.
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1888: Feminist activist Elizabeth Wolstenholme...

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1888

Feminist activist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy published The Emancipation of Women.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England. Princeton University Press, 1989.
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1716: Parliament passed the Septennial Act, which...

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1716

Parliament passed the Septennial Act, which set the maximum duration of a British government at seven years before an election had to be called (more than twice the previous three-year term).
Johnson, Samuel. Samuel Johnson: A Critical Edition of the Major Works. Editor Greene, Donald, Oxford University Press, 1984.
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1857: J. F. Hope of London published the two volumes...

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1857

J. F. Hope of London published the two volumes of Mrs Robert Cartwright's third novel, The Royal Sisters; or Pictures of a Court.
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.

1723: Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed to the...

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1723

Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed to the position of Kantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig. He was the first to hold this position without a certificate of his competence in the field of teaching Latin.
Grafton, Anthony. “Not Dead Yet”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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