Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Explore Orlando
Here, you’ll find randomized material from across the textbase’s author profiles and timelines. To jump to the content of your choice, click on its image card.
Writer or writing
Author profile
Isabella Kelly
IK
, who published during the very late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century, was a poet and a leading Minerva Press
novelist in gothic and other modes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
She also wrote a couple of pedagogic...
14 July 1832: William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator announced...
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Mullin, Donald C. Victorian Plays: A Record of Significant Productions on the London Stage, 1837-1901. Greenwood Press, 1987.
59
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
89
Writer or writing
Author profile
Kate O'Brien
KOB
, twentieth-century Irish writer, was successively a journalist, playwright, novelist, essayist, travel writer, and biographer. She was, she said, influenced by the singing voice and by dance music. Masefield
said, Don't despise dance music...
WH
's posthumous reputation is based on her final novel, South Riding, published after her death. During her lifetime, she was better known as a prominent journalist, invited by Virginia Woolf
in February 1935...
2 June 1882: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot and military...
National or international item
2 June 1882
Giuseppe Garibaldi
, Italian patriot and military leader during the Risorgimento, died at Caprera, Italy.
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972.
110
22 June 2010: George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
National or international item
22 June 2010
George Osborne
, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain's coalition government, announced a budget of unprecedented stringency to tackle unprecedented debt.
“Sunday Times”. The Sunday Times Magazine, 26 Dec. 2010, pp. 22-50.
31, 30
1737-9: Elizabeth Blackwell (not to be confused with...
Women writers item
1737-9
Elizabeth Blackwell
(not to be confused with the pioneer physician of the same name who flourished a century later) published, first in weekly parts and then in volume form, her Curious Herbal.
Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
39-4
1891: The St Bride Printing Library of London was...
Gentry, Helen, and David Greenhood. Chronology of Books and Printing. Rev. ed., Macmillan, 1936.
118
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
163
1826: In this year's elections, no votes were cast...
National or international item
1826
In this year's elections, no votes were cast in Scotland and only 546 were cast in Wales; most constituencies had a single candidate, so there was no contest.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
347
1898: A conference on commercial education sponsored...
Building and people item
1898
A conference on commercial education sponsored by the LondonChamber of Commerce
reported that the majority of clerks entered the business at about age fourteen, directly from elementary school.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
148
By 2 June 1787: Elizabeth Steele published The Memoirs of...
Women writers item
By 2 June 1787
Elizabeth Steele
published The Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley, an actress famed for her beauty and her singing voice, who had been, intermittently, a long-term friend and associate of Steele and had died the...
29 June 1871: The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour...
National or international item
29 June 1871
The UK's Trade Union Act legalized labour unions but denied workers the right to picket.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
293
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
213-14
December 1865-November 1866: Charles Reade's controversial Griffith Gaunt;...
Writer or writing item
December 1865-November 1866
Charles Reade
's controversial Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy was serialised in The Argosy.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
523
23 February 1733: A twenty-two-year-old washerwoman, Sarah...
Building and people item
23 February 1733
A twenty-two-year-old washerwoman, Sarah Malcolm
, standing trial for murder, failed to persuade a jury (all-male, of course) that the blood on her shift was not the victim's but her own menstrual blood.
Magrath, Jane. “(Mis)Reading the Bloody Body: The Case of Sarah Malcolm”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
11
, No. 2, 2004, pp. 223-36.
223-36
22 November 1687: For this day's celebrations Dryden wrote...
Writer or writing item
22 November 1687
For this day's celebrations Dryden
wrote his Song for St. Cecilia's Day.
Dryden, John. Selected Poetry and Prose of John Dryden. Editor Miner, Earl, Modern Library College Editions, The Modern Library, 1985.
503
24 October 1860: The Treaty of Peking put an end to the war...
National or international item
24 October 1860
The Treaty of Peking put an end to the war between Britain and China which had begun on 8 October 1856; it also settled the border between Russia and China.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
341
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
281
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 782-3
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
233
April 1870: Thomas William Robertson's play M. P. was...
22 May 1970: A bomb discovered at a police station in...
National or international item
22 May 1970
A bomb discovered at a police station in Paddington (following a series of sporadic bomb incidents reaching back over a year) was the first to be (later) attributed to the Angry Brigade.
“Angry Brigade Chronology”. Spunk Library.
1688: Mary Holden, following in the footsteps of...
Building and people item
1688
Mary Holden
, following in the footsteps of Sarah Jinner
, published The Womans Almanack; it appeared the following year as well.
Sharp, Jane. “Introduction”. The Midwives Book, edited by Elaine Hobby, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. xi - xxxi.
xx and n27
November 1924-4 July 1925: Captain Alfred and Mrs Delingette made the...
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 594
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
1075
January 1782: The European Magazine and London Review began...
Writer or writing item
January 1782
The European Magazine and London Review began monthly publication in London.
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.
1851-54: Auguste Comte published Système de politique...
Writer or writing item
1851-54
Auguste Comte
published Système de politique positive in four volumes; it was translated as The System of Positive Polity from 1875-7.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
221
20 November 1975: The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died....
National or international item
20 November 1975
The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco
died. His government had been recognised by that of Britain on 28 February 1939, a month before Franco himself announced victory over the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
