Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Elizabeth Jennings
EJ
was a twentieth-century English poet writing on family, literary, and religious subjects. Peter Levi
calls her maybe the last poet of what may be called the soul.
qtd. in
The Ship. St Anne’s College.
92: 54
Early in her career she...
1898: Harrods unveiled its moving staircase (an...
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1898
Harrods
unveiled its moving staircase (an early form of the escalator) to great publicity, astonishment, and delight.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
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January 1923: The N. C. W. News, from the National Council...
AF
was both a scholar and a poet. Her four poetry volumes, published during the 1780s, are closely and ambitiously related to the traditions of classical, biblical, and English literature. Her collected volume shows that...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
December 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize...
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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/.
January 1971: The Open University began teaching its first...
Bell, Robert, b. 1930, and Malcolm Tight. Open Universities: A British Tradition? Open University Press, 1993.
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1981: Antigua and Barbuda became a joint political...
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1981
Antigua and Barbuda became a joint political entity 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.
249
16 March 1754: The Duke of Newcastle became Prime Minister...
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16 March 1754
The Duke of Newcastle
became Prime Minister after a long career of managing the Whig party machine.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
271
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
113
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
About 1680: The oldest public lending library in Scotland,...
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About 1680
The oldest public lending library in Scotland, Innerpeffray Library, was founded near Crieff in Perthshire.
“Scotland’s first free Public Lending Library”. Innerpeffray Library.
26 November 1607: Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear was registered...
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26 November 1607
Shakespeare
's tragedy King Lear was registered with the Stationers' Company
for publication in a quarto edition the following year.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
313
Neill, Michael. “Glimpsed in the Glare”. London Revew of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 24, 17 Dec. 2015, pp. 39-41.
40
28 November 1832: Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf,...
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28 November 1832
Leslie Stephen
, father of Virginia Woolf
, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, editor of Cornhill Magazine, biographer, and agnostic, was born.
Annan, Noel. Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian. Random House, 1984.
5, 10, 52, 66, 83-8, 301
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1 January 1762: Lady Cust, head of a politically influential...
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1 January 1762
Lady Cust
, head of a politically influential family, organised an event which demonstrated skill in wooing potential voters.
Chalus, Elaine. “’That epidemical Madness’: women and electoral politics in the late eighteenth century”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 151-78.
161
1835-1838: The Dutch Boers north and east of the Orange...
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1835-1838
The Dutch Boers north and east of the Orange River went on their Great Trek to escape from British restrictions on slavery and from policies perceived as sympathetic to natives.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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19 December 1841: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published Ballads...
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19 December 1841
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
published Ballads and Other Poems, which included The Wreck of the Hesperus and The Village Blacksmith.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Chamberlain, Jacob Chester, and Luther S. Livingston. A Bibliography of the First Editions in Book Form of the Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Privately printed by De Vinne Press, 1908.
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P. D. James
PDJ
was a crime writer with a major reputation in both Britain and the United States. As well as her mystery novels, she wrote non-mystery novels, one excursion into science fiction, non-fiction, a play...
