Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Sarah Scott
SS
, who published during the second half of the eighteenth century, wrote for money and never signed her name to her work. She is known as a novelist; but as a historian and translator...
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Mary Renault
MR
, who published her first book in 1939, is best known for her historical novels, and is also noted for her strong interest in same-sex love. In her present-day novels, a large proportion of...
Christmas Day 1699 : Playwright and amateur architect John Vanbrugh...
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Christmas Day 1699
Playwright and amateur architect John Vanbrugh
recorded in a letter his progress on designs for an ambitious rebuilding of Castle Howard in Yorkshire in the style later called English baroque.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Vanbrugh
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Maria Theresa Longworth
Novelist and travel writer MTL
began her writing career following the findings of the infamous Yelverton Marriage Case, which left her without fortune because of legal expenses, and without a husband because of the...
15 March 1906: An estimated 10,000 people attended the funeral...
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15 March 1906
An estimated 10,000 people attended the funeral of Susan B. Anthony
in Rochester, New York. After the church was full the rest waited outside in biting wind and falling snow, until after the service...
1847: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers was...
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
315
29 May 1970: The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of...
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29 May 1970
The Equal Pay Act legislated equality of treatment for both sexes in employment contracts.
Lorwin, Val R., and Sarah Boston. “Great Britain”. Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries, edited by Alice H. Cook et al., Temple University Press, 1984, pp. 140-61.
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Law Reports: Statutes. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1866–2026.
2 (1970): 1366-75
Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
164, 176-9
Kessler-Harris, Alice. “Into the blue”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 10-11, July 2003, p. 32.
32
28 December 1694: The twelve-year-old marriage between the...
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28 December 1694
The twelve-year-old marriage between the future George I
and Sophia Dorothea of Celle
was dissolved; Sophia Dorothea's lover had already been killed, probably without her husband's knowledge.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George I
By 20 May 1837: Thomas Carlyle published his acclaimed History...
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By 20 May 1837
Thomas Carlyle
published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
499 (1837): 353
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Elizabeth Stirredge
ES
was one of the best-known Quaker
pamphleteers and religious autobiographers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. She was also known in her own localities as an outstanding preacher.
3 August 1958: The USS Nautilus became the first submarine...
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3 August 1958
The USS Nautilus became the first submarine to travel under the polar ice cap from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
276
1920: The Dick Kerr Ladies competed against a French...
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1920
The Dick Kerr Ladies
competed against a French team at Preston in the first international football match between women's teams.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
10 May 1844: The Midland Railway emerged from the amalgamation...
Simmons, Jack. The Railway in England and Wales 1830-1914. Leicester University Press, 1978.
25
Ellis, Hamilton. British Railway History: An Outline from the Accession of William IV to the Nationalisation of Railways 1830-1876. George Allen and Unwin, 1954.
99
1691: Robert Gould published another misogynist...
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1691
Robert Gould
published another misogynist satire, A Satyrical Epistle to the Female Author of a Poem Called Sylvia's Revenge.
Buchanan, Dave. Augustan Women’s Verse Satire. University of Alberta, 1998.
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.
Hughes, Derek. “The Masked Woman Revealed; or, the prostitute and the playwright in Aphra Behn criticism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 149-64.
150
1 January 1660-31 May 1669: Samuel Pepys kept the Diary which was published...
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1 January 1660-31 May 1669
Samuel Pepys
kept the Diary which was published long after his death.
Pepys, Samuel. Diary. Editor Wheatley, Henry B., G. Bell and Sons, 1952, 8 vols.
passim
1993: Rebecca Stephens climbed Mount Everest, the...
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1993
Rebecca Stephens
climbed Mount Everest, the first British woman to do so.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
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.
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Winifred Holtby
WH
's posthumous reputation is based on her final novel, South Riding, published after her death. During her lifetime, she was better known as a prominent journalist, invited by Virginia Woolf
in February 1935...
EF
is known for her single, posthumously published travel book, selected from the journals she kept during her voyages from the British Isles to India and from there to Mauritius and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)...
7 June 1594: Dr Roderigo Lopez, a Portuguese Jew who had...
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7 June 1594
Dr Roderigo Lopez
, a Portuguese Jew who had lived thirty-five years in England, most of them at the head of the medical profession, was executed for his alleged part in a plot to...
1843: The Hungarian Diet adopted Magyar as its...
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1843
The Hungarian Diet adopted Magyar as its official language.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
110
April 1916: As a result of the loss of merchant ships...
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April 1916
As a result of the loss of merchant ships carrying paper making materials, the British Government appointed a Royal Commission on Paper
whose purpose was to reduce paper imports and to control distribution.
Kingsford, Reginald John Lethbridge. The Publisher’s Association, 1896-1946. Cambridge University Press, 1970.
52-3
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
52
April 1910: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
1908: The Co-operative Congress accepted the Women's...
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1908
The Co-operative Congress accepted the Women's Co-operative Guild
's proposal for a standard pay scale for female Co-operative employees.
Webb, Catherine. The Woman with the Basket: The History of the Women’s Co-operative Guild 1883-1927. Co-operative Wholesale Society’s Printing Works, 1927.
