Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Early 2004: The Richard and Judy Book Club was launched...
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
106: 155
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E. Arnot Robertson
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, EAR
published nine novels (the last one posthumously), as well as shorter fiction, a work of topography and one of naval history, and a book for children...
1982: Aileen La Tourette's play Risking Night,...
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1982
Aileen La Tourette
's play Risking Night, Testing Dreams was staged in Bristol.
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.
There is no record of this play receiving individual publication.
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Beatrix Potter
BP
gained fame as a writer of little books for children, about animals which to some degree resemble humans, illustrated in watercolour by herself. Some of them draw on fable, riddles, and fairy stories. She...
1680: Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, or The Natural...
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1680
Sir Robert Filmer
's Patriarcha, or The Natural Power of Kings was posthumously published.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
3 November 1978: Dominica became independent from Britain...
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3 November 1978
Dominica became independent from Britain.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
1852: The House of Correction at Brixton was purchased,...
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1852
The House of Correction at Brixton was purchased, and converted to provide 700-800 places for women sentenced to penal servitude.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
178-9
1914: My Husband Still: A Working Woman's Story,...
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1914
My Husband Still: A Working Woman's Story, a novel from Helen Hamilton
that is based on an actual woman's account of her marriage, appeared with an introduction by John Galsworthy
.
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.
12 May 1905: Bamford Slack introduced a women's suffrage...
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12 May 1905
Bamford Slack
introduced a women's suffrage bill to the House of Commons
for its second reading; but it was talked out on 2 June.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
24
Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995.
x
26 October 1918: Religious and temperance philanthropist Agnes...
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26 October 1918
Religious and temperance philanthropist Agnes Weston
was given burial with full naval honours—a very rare distinction for a woman.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
315
“Agnes Weston: Information Sheet No. 43”. Royal Naval Museum: Collections: Research Collections: Information Service: Information Sheets.
Bazaars (specially arranged sales, largely of fancy goods) were beginning to become a popular way to raise funds for charity.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
48, 54-5
October 1996: Irish journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain...
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October 1996
Irish journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain
published her autobiography Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman.
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
November 2010: The voluminous diary kept by William Godwin...
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November 2010
The voluminous diary kept by William Godwin
(strictly a record of events, with little or no comment) became available to scholars on line, meticulously edited by Mark Philp
and his collaborators.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. 12 Nov. 2010, http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.
29 May 1914: The Church of Ireland Gazette claimed that...
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29 May 1914
The Church of Ireland Gazette claimed that militant suffragettes should be deported.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
68
By 18 October 1743: The hawker Frances Carver (Blind Fanny) was...
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
143
October 1867: The first issue of Saint Pauls was published...
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October 1867
The first issue of Saint Pauls was published by James Sprent Virtue
; editor Anthony Trollope
created a shilling periodical featuring serials, reviews, and political discussion.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 358-60
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
550
1758: James Ralph, political writer, historian,...
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1758
James Ralph
, political writer, historian, and reviewer, argued in The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade Stated that in the post-patronage age authors were slaves to publishers.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
20 May 1707: Jacob Tonson the elder signed the first of...
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20 May 1707
Jacob Tonson
the elder signed the first of two copyright agreements giving him sole right in Shakespeare
's plays.
Nichol, Donald W. “Warburton (Not!) on copyright: Clearing up the Misattribution of An Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Literary Property”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
19
, No. 2, 1996, pp. 171-82.
172
Bernard, Stephen. Whig Literary Culture and the Canon: the Legacy of the Tonsons. Oxford University Press, 2015.
30 May 1747: Thomas Gray published Ode on a Distant Prospect...
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press, 1975, 2 vols.
1886: The year-end accounting of Peter Robinson's...
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1886
The year-end accounting of Peter Robinson's department store showed sales of ready-made goods earning far greater business than made-to-order purchases.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
208, 214
1886: Friedrich Nietzsche published Jenseits von...
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1886
Friedrich Nietzsche
published Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil).
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.
31 December 1879: Thomas Edison presented his newly invented...
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31 December 1879
Thomas Edison
presented his newly invented electric lighting system to the public in an elaborate New Year's Eve demonstration in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Friedel, Robert et al. Edison’s Electric Light: Biography of an Invention. Rutgers University Press, 1986.
