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1832: John William Parker established his own publishing...

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1832

John William Parker established his own publishing business at 445 West Strand, London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.
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December 1835: Remnants of the National Union of the Working...

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December 1835

Remnants of the National Union of the Working Classes merged with Marylebone Radical Association .
Goodway, David. London Chartism, 1838-1848. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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1882: Victorien Sardou's French play Fedora popularized...

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1882

Victorien Sardou 's French play Fedora popularized the felt fedora.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
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June 2006: Monica Ali published her second novel, Alentejo...

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June 2006

Monica Ali published her second novel, Alentejo Blue, which is set in a village called Mamarrosa in Alentejo province, Portugal, and whose characters are both Portuguese and English.
Lowry, Elizabeth. “Seductive Slide into Despair”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2006, pp. 33-4.
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6 June 1841: Marian Rebecca Hughes became the first woman...

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6 June 1841

Marian Rebecca Hughes became the first woman to take the vow of holy celibacy in the Church of England since the Reformation.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
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1843: Alexander Bain, a Scottish inventor, patented...

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1843

Alexander Bain , a Scottish inventor, patented an electrochemical recording telegraph, an early version of the facsimile machine.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

1908: The British government entertained a scheme...

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1908

The British government entertained a scheme to prevent the access of married women to employment; it was, however, abandoned.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000.
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October 1647: Followers of John Lilburne, who had proclaimed...

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October 1647

Followers of John Lilburne , who had proclaimed the sovereignty of the people, as opposed to that of the monarch, were for the first time nicknamed Levellers.
Frank, Joseph. The Levellers: A History of the Writings of Three Seventeenth-Century Social Democrats, John Lilburne, Richard Overton, William Walwyn. Harvard University Press, 1955.
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Moore, Roderick. The Levellers: A Chronology and Bibliography, 1994. http://www.diggers.org/diggers/levellers.htm.
Gillespie, Katharine. “A Hammer in Her Hand: The Separation of Church from State and the Early Feminist Writings of Katherine Chidley”. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1998, pp. 213-33.
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1874: The novel By Still Waters: A Story for Quiet...

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1874

The novel By Still Waters: A Story for Quiet Hours was published; it was attributed to Edward Garrett, the pseudonym of Isabella Fyvie Mayo .
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.

Emily Lawless

EL published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries across a wide range of forms: the novel, history, fictional autobiography, short story, poetry, and critical biography. Remembered primarily for her work on Irish themes...

16 April 1904: Samuel Smiles, biographer and self-help expert,...

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16 April 1904

Samuel Smiles , biographer and self-help expert, died at Kensington.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

April 1863: Henry Mansel in the Quarterly Review attacked...

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April 1863

Henry Mansel in the Quarterly Review attacked sensation novels as preaching to the nerves and as indications of a wide-spread corruption, of which they are in part both the effect and the cause; called into...

6 May 1992: Marlene Dietrich died at the age of ninety;...

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6 May 1992

Marlene Dietrich died at the age of ninety; her career in cabaret and films had spanned 1930s Berlin and postwar Hollywood.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
513

11 December 1792: Louis XVI went on trial before the National...

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11 December 1792

Louis XVI went on trial before the National Convention in Paris.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
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8 June 1886: Gladstone's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was...

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8 June 1886

Gladstone 's Home Rule Bill for Ireland was defeated. The issue split his party, the Liberals , and eventually the Liberal-Unionists were absorbed into the Conservatives .
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
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Kidd, Colin. “Coalition Monsters”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, 6 Mar. 2014, pp. 27-8.
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1904: The London Metropolitan Water Board was formed...

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1904

The LondonMetropolitan Water Board was formed (after pressure from a series of royal commissions) out of a number of private water companies.
Rudden, Bernard. “The Purchas’d Wave”. London Review of Books, 22 July 2004, pp. 28-9.
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January 1688: Lord Halifax published The Lady's New-Year's...

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January 1688

Lord Halifax published The Lady's New-Year's Gift; or, Advice to a Daughter (generally known by its subtitle), which long remained popular as advice-literature.
Halifax, George Savile, Marquess of. Complete Works. Editor Kenyon, John Philipps, Penguin, 1969.
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1899: The Society for Promoting Female Education...

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1899

The Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India, and the East was disbanded.
Donaldson, Margaret. “’The Cultivation of the Heart and the Moulding of the Will . . . ’: The Missionary Contribution of the Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India and the East”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 429-42.
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1978: Penelope Gilliatt published The Cutting Edge:...

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1978

Penelope Gilliatt published The Cutting Edge: A Novel.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

October 1854: The Working Men's College, Great Ormond Street,...

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October 1854

The Working Men's College , Great Ormond Street, London, was founded by the Rev. Frederick D. Maurice .
Baldick, Chris. The Social Mission of English Criticism. Clarendon, 1983.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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1927: The Eton crop (a short, boyish hairstyle...

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1927

The Eton crop (a short, boyish hairstyle for women) became fashionable, provoking a good deal of hostile social commentary.
Forster, Margaret. Significant Sisters. Secker and Warburg, 1984.
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1974-1978: The People's National Party nationalized...

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1974-1978

The People's National Party nationalized Jamaica's largest businesses and set up agricultural collectives.
Rogozinski, Jan. A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and the Carib to the Present. Revised, Facts on File, 1999.
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August 1942: Because of the almost daily German air attacks,...

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August 1942

Because of the almost daily German air attacks, women not employed full-time were required to accept fire-watching duties throughout Great Britain.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
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11 January 1967: The Society for Protection of Unborn Children,...

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11 January 1967

The Society for Protection of Unborn Children , an anti-abortion group, was formed at Wells in Somerset.
Hindell, Keith, and Madeleine Simms. Abortion Law Reformed. Peter Owen, 1971.
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1516: The first of several versions of Italian...

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1516

The first of several versions of Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto 's epic poem Orlando furioso (which means something like Mad Roland) appeared in print.
Trudeau, Lawrence J., editor. “Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto”. Literature Criticism Online, Vol.
206
, Gale, Cengage Learning, 2012.
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