Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1973: Julia Phillips became the first woman to...
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1973
Julia Phillips
became the first woman to win an Oscar for film production: she shared the award, for producing The Sting, with Tony Bill
and her husband Michael
.
Baxter, Brian. “Julia Phillips”. The Guardian, 4 Jan. 2002, p. 20.
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1378-1417: Rival claimants to the position of Pope weakened...
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1378-1417
Rival claimants to the position of Pope weakened the authority of the Papacy in what became known as the Great Schism.
Griffiths, Ralph Alan. “The Later Middle Ages (1290-1485)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 166-22.
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5 May 1921: Gabrielle Coco Chanel introduced the perfume...
Mary, Lady Shepherd
, published her first major philosophical work, An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, a critique of the fourth of David Hume
's Philosophical Essays.
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.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
189
16 February 1945: Lady Denman resigned as Honorary Director...
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16 February 1945
Lady Denman
resigned as Honorary Director to protest the exclusion of Women's Land Army
members from demobilisation benefits extended to members of other war services.
Twinch, Carol. Women on the Land: Their Story During Two World Wars. Lutterworth, 1990.
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Tyrer, Nicola. They Fought in the Fields: The Women’s Land Army: The Story of a Forgotten Victory. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996.
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Fredrika Bremer
FB was a nineteenth-century Swedish author, her country's leading representative of women's writing and feminist thinking and action in her generation, and for several more to come. She published short fiction and novels (which were...
Judicial torture, hitherto commonly exercised, as a Crown prerogative, in state trials in England, was virtually banned by statute.
Sedley, Stephen. “Wringing out the Fault”. London Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2002, pp. 27-31.
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12 August-3 September 1821: The newly-crowned George IV visited Ireland...
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12 August-3 September 1821
The newly-crowned George IV
visited Ireland (the first British monarch to do so since William III
made war there), and was rapturously received in Dublin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Campbell, Mary, 1917 - 2002. Lady Morgan: The Life and Times of Sydney Owenson. Pandora, 1988.
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31 March 1912: On Home Rule Day Irish suffragists publicly...
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31 March 1912
On Home Rule Day Irish suffragists publicly protested the exclusion of women's franchise from the Home Rule bill.
MacCurtain, Margaret. “Women, the Vote and Revolution”. Women in Irish Society: The Historical Dimension, edited by Margaret MacCurtain and Donncha Ó Corráin, Greenwood, 1979, pp. 46-57.
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14 December 1542: James V of Scotland died, and his infant...
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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January 1863: Nationalists revolted for independence in...
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January 1863
Nationalists revolted for independence in Poland, but the insurrection—led largely by students and middle-class urban folk—was put down by the Russian army.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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20 April 1769: Justice Joseph Yates recorded his view in...
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20 April 1769
Justice Joseph Yates
recorded his view in debate over intellectual property that works once published are irrevocably given to the public; they become common.
London, April. Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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1598: John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury,...
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1598
John Whitgift
, Archbishop of Canterbury, prohibited the running of any school in the Cathedral, of maiden children especially, except for the Queen's School, and that for the choristers.
Adamson, John William. ’The Illiterate Anglo-Saxon’ and Other Essays on Education, Medieval and Modern. Cambridge University Press, 1946.
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Reynolds, Myra. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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1896: Theodor Herzl published, both in German and...
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1896
Theodor Herzl
published, both in German and English, his foundational Zionist text The Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution to the Jewish Question.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
348
10 February 1763: The Peace of Paris ended the Seven Years'...
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10 February 1763
The Peace of Paris ended the Seven Years' War (known in North America as the French and Indian War), which had firmly established Britain's pre-eminence as a maritime power.
Furneaux, Rupert. The Seven Years War. Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1973.
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Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
533, 643, 765, 778
This...
1862: The first traffic islands designed as pedestrian...
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1862
The first traffic islands designed as pedestrian safety zones were built in Liverpool.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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31 March 1832: William Tait published the first issue of...
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31 March 1832
William Tait
published the first issue of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
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Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 475-7
18 January 1874: Mrs Nassau Senior was appointed as the first...
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18 January 1874
Mrs Nassau Senior
was appointed as the first female Inspector of workhouse and pauper schools: the appointment was at first temporary, but became permanent the next month.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
153, 180
Martindale, Hilda. Women Servants of the State, 1870-1938: A History of Women in the Civil Service. G. Allen and Unwin , 1938.
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Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under William Nassau Senior
1832: England, France and Russia signed a second...
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1832
England, France and Russia signed a second Treaty of London (two years after the first), which recognized Greece's complete independence from Turkey.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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5 October 1930: The British R.101 airship crashed and burned...
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5 October 1930
The British R.101 airship crashed and burned ten miles south of Beauvais in northern France, claiming among its victims the air minister and director of civil aviation; after this disaster Britain stopped building airships.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978.
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8 April 1838: The Great Western, the first steamship built...
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8 April 1838
The Great Western, the first steamship built especially for transatlantic crossings, left Bristol for New York.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Kemp, Peter, editor. Encyclopedia of Ships and Seafaring. Stanford Maritime, 1980.
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Sybille Bedford
SB
was a largely twentieth-century writer who worked on the boundaries between fiction and fact. Her three initial novels (which create fictional characters partly from people in Bedford's own family or circle, and which evoke...
