Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Anna Williams
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was an eighteenth-century translator and poet. Best-known among her slender oeuvre is a miscellany or anthology of contemporary poems. Her projected dictionary of scientific terms remained unwritten.
1848: Frederic Rowton published his anthology The...
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1848
Frederic Rowton
published his anthology The Female Poets of Great Britain, Chronologically Arranged, with Copious Selections and Critical Remarks.
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.
May 1910: The Woman Journalist, the organ of the Society...
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
189
July 1788: The The Literary Magazine and British Review...
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July 1788
The The Literary Magazine and British Review began publication in London. It ran until June 1794, changing its title at the beginning of 1791 to the The Literary Magazine and British Review.
Writing in the second half of the nineteenth century, Anna Steele
worked in a variety of genres, including poetry, drama, the short story, translation, and musical composition. Her six novels straddle the modes of sensationalism...
June 1789: Henry Grattan and others founded the Whig...
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June 1789
Henry Grattan
and others founded the Whig Club in Dublin, one of whose aims was to prevent Union with England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1802: The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act...
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1802
The Health and Morals of Apprentices Act was passed, regulating the work of children in industrial mills and working conditions more generally.
Warren, Michael. “A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain: 1066 - 1999”. Michael Warren’s Chronology, 6 Jan. 2003.
28 October 1939: The first modern-times ghetto for the residence...
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28 October 1939
The first modern-times ghetto for the residence of Jews, removing their legal right elsewhere, was live set up by the Nazis
in Piotrkow, Poland.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 126
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.
June 1925: The Independent Labour Party founded an Arts...
Merkin, Ros. “The religion of socialism or a pleasant Sunday afternoon?: The ILP Arts Guild”. British Theatre between the Wars, 1918-1939, edited by Clive Barker and Maggie B. Gale, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 162-89.
162, 165, 168, 174-5, 181
May 1921: American pilot Laura Brownell set a world...
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May 1921
American pilot Laura Brownell
set a world record for women by performing the loop-the-loop one hundred and ninety-nine times.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
427
25 February 1956: The Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist...
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25 February 1956
The Twentieth Congress of the SovietCommunist Party
ended with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev
, which mentioned for the first time some of Stalin
's political assassinations and general repression.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev. “Foreword”. The cult of the individual, Guardian News and Media, 2007, pp. 5-6.
5-6
1795: Justices sitting at Speenhamland in Berkshire...
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1795
Justices sitting at Speenhamland in Berkshire decided that when agricultural wages were insufficient to buy bread, they could be supplemented from the poor rates.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 140
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
65 (1795)
1909: The self-contained diving system was inv...
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1909
The self-contained diving system was invented.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
172, 189
1842: The Chartist Council of Birmingham recommended...
Fielding, Henry. “Introduction”. Tom Jones, edited by John Bender et al., Oxford University Press, 1996, p. ix - xliii.
xliii
17 February 1856: Heinrich Heine, German-Jewish lyric poet,...
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17 February 1856
Heinrich Heine
, German-Jewish lyric poet, died after intense suffering from tuberculosis of the spine.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
90
29 August 1842: The signing of the Treaty of Nanking ended...
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29 August 1842
The signing of the Treaty of Nanking ended the Opium War fought between China and the United Kingdom since July 1839. Hong Kong was ceded in perpetuity to Britain.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
265
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
304
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
1: 781-2
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
911
February 1871: The French National Assembly met at Bordeaux...
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February 1871
The French National Assembly
met at Bordeaux and agreed to the terms of peace proposed by the Prussians.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
286-7
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Angela Brazil
AB
began writing children's plays about fairies, and progressed, during the first half of the twentieth century, through one bildungsroman for girls based on her own childhood and another on the experience of her mother...
