Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Jean Binta Breeze
JBB
is a Jamaican-British poet who published her first collection in 1983, having begun performing a few years earlier. Her poetic style is based around verbal delivery and musical accompaniment. Her writing is often centred...
1921: Jonathan Cape publishing house was founded...
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
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Mumby, Frank Arthur, and Ian Norrie. Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the Twentieth Century. 6th ed., Bell and Hyman, 1982.
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May 1917: A Government Order fixed the maximum prices...
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May 1917
A Government Order fixed the maximum prices which could be charged for the sale of recycled paper.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
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27 September 1968: The tribal love-rock musical Hair, a few...
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27 September 1968
The tribal love-rock musicalHair, a few months into its four-year run on Broadway, opened in London the day after censorship was ended by the Theatres Act.
“1968: Musical Hair opens as censors withdraw”. BBC. On this Day, 27 Sept. 1968.
By 1 September 1855: John Wilson's fictional dialogues Noctes...
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By 1 September 1855
John Wilson
's fictional dialogues Noctes ambrosianae was published.
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.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1904: Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (grandson of Sir...
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1904
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
(grandson of Sir George Gilbert Scott
) began work on the Anglican Cathedral of Liverpool, a late masterpiece of Victorian Gothic which, however, was not completed until 1978.
Saint, Andrew. “The Danger of Giving In”. London Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2002, pp. 30-1.
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June 1851: Henry Manning converted to Roman Catholicism...
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June 1851
Henry Manning
converted to Roman Catholicism after seeing several of his Oxford colleagues do so; he became a Cardinal fourteen years later and was a strong proponent of the Ultramontanist side of the Roman Catholic...
31 August 1962: Trinidad and Tobago became independent within...
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31 August 1962
Trinidad and Tobago became independent within the Commonwealth.
“The Man Booker Prize: Prize Archive 2006”. The Man Booker Prize.
McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, Jan. 2007, pp. 9-12.
9-10
“Tears, tiffs and triumphs”. Guardian Unlimited, 6 Sept. 2008.
1799: The Seditious Societies Act restricted the...
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1799
The Seditious Societies Act restricted the circulation of newspapers, books and pamphlets, all in aid of quelling any expression of sympathy with revolutionary France.
Suarez, Michael F. “The Business of Literature: The Book Trade in England from Milton to Blake”. A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake, edited by David Womersley, Blackwell, 2000, pp. 131-47.
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1958: An Adoption Act was passed in Britain, which...
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1958
An Adoption Act was passed in Britain, which facilitated the reclaiming of adopted children by a biological parent or parents.
Rogers, Rick. Crowther to Warnock: How fourteen reports tried to change children’s lives. Heinemann Educational Books in association with the International Year of the Child, 1980.
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January 1889: Emma Cons became the first woman to be nominated...
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January 1889
Emma Cons
became the first woman to be nominated and to serve as alderman (one step up from a councillor) on the new London County Council
, on the basis of her housing activism and...
Early November 2012: A merger was proposed between the publishers...
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Early November 2012
A merger was proposed between the publishers Penguin
and Random House
, that would create a mega-company with worldwide revenues of 4.1 billion dollars US.
First week in March 1946: Nearly 14,000 babies born this week in Britain...
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First week in March 1946
Nearly 14,000 babies born this week in Britain (representing 98% of families canvassed) were tracked by James Douglas
in a statistical cohort study for sociological information.
Francis, Gavin. “Get the placentas”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 11, 2 June 2016, pp. 21-2.
Just before 4 May 1723: A prostitute was sentenced to a year in prison...
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Just before 4 May 1723
A prostitute was sentenced to a year in prison for fatally stabbing a client whom she suspected of seeking to seduce her younger sister.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Editor Halsband, Robert, Clarendon Press, 1965–1967, 3 vols.
2: 20 and n2
1876: The first volume of Herbert Spencer's The...
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1876
The first volume of Herbert Spencer
's The Principles of Sociology was published.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
105
14 February 1779: Captain Cook was killed by natives at Karakakoa...
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14 February 1779
Captain Cook
was killed by natives at Karakakoa Bay, Hawaii.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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B. M. Croker
BMC
was a sharp-eyed observer of people and places. Her nearly fifty novels (published between 1881 and 1917), and her stories in periodicals and collections, are often set either in her native Ireland or in...
Harden, Edgar F. A Checklist of Contributions by William Makepeace Thackeray to Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, and Serial Part Issues, 1828-1864. English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1996.
71-5
Cruse, Amy. The Victorians and Their Books. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
225-6
1883: Clement Dukes, the doctor at Rugby, published...
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1883
Clement Dukes
, the doctor at Rugby
, published the strongly anti-masturbatory The Preservation of Health as it is Affected by Personal Habits.
Bristow, Edward. Vice and Vigilance: Purity Movements in Britain Since 1700. Gill and Macmillan, 1977.
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1861-5: The Lancashire cotton famine occurred: a...
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1861-5
The Lancashire cotton famine occurred: a period of intense hardship among workers in the cotton industry, produced when the American Civil War disrupted trade.
Longmate, Norman. The Hungry Mills. Temple Smith, 1978.
May 1934: Robert Graves's historical novel I, Claudius,...
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May 1934
Robert Graves
's historical novel I, Claudius, narrated in the first person by a Roman emperor whose reputation with posterity was that of an idiot, was published to enthusiastic reviews.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
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Burrow, Colin. “Adjusting the Mechanism”. London Review of Books, Vol.
40
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