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.

1872: The Queen's Bench case of Regina v. Harrald...

National or international item

1872

The Queen's Bench case of Regina v. Harrald excluded qualified married women from voting in municipal elections.
Rover, Constance. Women’s Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain, 1866-1914. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967.
224

1857: Sensing that nationwide prohibition of alcohol...

Building and people item

1857

Sensing that nationwide prohibition of alcohol was unlikely, the United Kingdom Alliance changed its lobbying efforts to securing Local Option prohibition, which would allow the question to be decided in individual settlements.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
82

28 August 1828: Novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born...

Writer or writing item

28 August 1828

Novelist Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born at Iasnaia Poliana, an estate (which is variously transliterated) near Tula in Russia.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
238

1840: The first Railway Inspectors (or Inspecting...

Building and people item

1840

The first Railway Inspectors (or Inspecting Officers) were appointed from among members of the Royal Corps of Engineers : this was an important step towards promoting safety.
Binyon, Jane. “Delays that Kill”. London Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2000, pp. 14-16.
14

10 October 1887: George Thompson Hutchinson founded Hutchinson...

Writer or writing item

10 October 1887

George Thompson Hutchinson founded Hutchinson and Company (Publishers) Limited at 25 Paternoster Row, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
162

1824: The Manchester Mechanical Institute was ...

Building and people item

1824

The Manchester Mechanical Institute was founded.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
783
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1997: 1563

After September 1940: During the London blitz, according to a US...

Writer or writing item

After September 1940

During the London blitz, according to a US literary historian, one of the earliest harbingers of rehabilitation was the appearance of books in the fetid burrows while the bombs rained overhead.
Haycraft, Howard. Murder for Pleasure. Carroll and Graf, 1984.
vii

25 November 1982: Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology...

Women writers item

25 November 1982

Diana Scott issued Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry by Women Writers.
Scott, Diana, editor. Bread and Roses. Virago, 1982.

1884: Leading physician George Savage published...

Building and people item

1884

Leading physician George Savage published Insanity and Allied Neuroses.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
109-10, 267

1767: Work began on the Royal Crescent in Bath,...

Building and people item

1767

Work began on the Royal Crescent in Bath, which was completed in 1775.
Parker, Keiko. “What Part of Bath Do You Think They Will Settle In?: Jane Austens Use of Bath in PersuasionPersuasions, Vol.
23
, 2001, pp. 166-76.
168

May 1756: The Literary Magazine: or, Universal Review...

Writer or writing item

May 1756

The Literary Magazine: or, Universal Review (often known as the Literary Review) began publication in London; Samuel Johnson was a contributor and, for the first four issues, the editor.
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.
Hudson, Nicholas. “Discourse of Transition: Johnson, the 1750s, and the Rise of the Middle Class”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
13
, 2002, pp. 31-51.
41

1792: The New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1792...

Building and people item

1792

The New Bristol Directory, for the Year 1792 listed 53 women as lodging-house keepers.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
267n10

: About a week after the Cuban missile crisis...

National or international item

Late autumn 1962

About a week after the Cuban missile crisis eased, a Russian agent, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky , used in a phone call to his MI6 contact the pre-arranged code that signified nuclear attack was imminent.
Rose, David. “The Closest Call”. The Observer, 3 Mar. 2002, p. Review 15.
Review 15

1912: The magazine Myra's Journal of Dress and...

Writer or writing item

1912

The magazine Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion ceased publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
217

1986: The publishing firm of Bloomsbury Books was...

Writer or writing item

1986

The publishing firm of Bloomsbury Books was founded with the aim of bringing quality to the mass market.
Wardle, Gerry. “Bloomsbury literary fiction imprint at Bloomsbury”. Mslexia, Vol.
14
, 1 June–30 Nov. 2002, p. 44.
44

1952: The seventy-eight-year-old Somerset Maugham...

Writer or writing item

1952

The seventy-eight-year-old Somerset Maugham confided to his former headmaster that he believed that the Order of Merit was something that they ought to award him, as the greatest living writer of English.
Tayler, Christopher. “I only want the OM”. London Review of Books, 1 Sept. 2005, pp. 19-22.
19

December 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize...

Writer or writing item

December 1964

Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but declined to accept it for personal and ideological reasons: the only person ever to do so.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

3 January 1994: The World Health Organization reported that...

Building and people item

3 January 1994

The World Health Organization reported that there were more than one million AIDS cases around the world.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
533

865: A Danish or Viking Great Army landed in East...

National or international item

865

A Danish or Viking Great Army landed in East Anglia and began the process of subjugating the various kingdoms of England.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
80

17 August 1893: According to scholar Andrea Broomfield, the...

Building and people item

17 August 1893

According to scholar Andrea Broomfield , the phrase New Woman made its debut in an article carried by the Woman's Herald: The Social Standing of the New Woman.
Broomfield, Andrea. “Much More Than an Antifeminist: Eliza Lynn Linton’s Contribution to the Rise of Victorian Popular Journalism”. Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol.
29
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 267-83.
280

1870: Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley published Body...

Building and people item

1870

Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley published Body and Mind, in which he connected visible vice and mental degeneracy.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
106
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
106, 266n16

October 1999: The Greater London Authority Act received...

National or international item

October 1999

The Greater London Authority Act received Royal Assent, re-establishing a democratically elected authority for London, and introducing the new, elected position of Mayor of London.
“A short history of London government”. London Life - GLA.

Stella Benson

SB 's fiction and travel-writing, and also her poetry and diaries, are rich in visual impact and imaginative oddity. She is an acute observer of material and emotional reality of the earlier twentieth century, into...
Stella Benson Cover of Stella Benson's "I Pose", 1916. It is green, with the author's name, title, and a flower emblem in embossed gold lettering.

December 1895: The first motor ambulance was exhibited in...

National or international item

December 1895

The first motor ambulance was exhibited in Paris at the Salon du Cycle.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
142

22 October 1962: US President John F. Kennedy disclosed on...

National or international item

22 October 1962

US President John F. Kennedy disclosed on television the existence of what came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The USA had found Soviet missile bases in Cuba, and began a blockade...