Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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1914: The County and Borough Councils (Qualification)...
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1914
The County and Borough Councils (Qualification) Act and the County, Town and Parish Councils (Qualification) (Scotland) Act removed property qualifications for councillors and aldermen; any woman or man who had lived in the...
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Jean Plaidy
Twentieth-century popular writer JP
wrote over 200 novels under seven different pseudonyms: some eighty-seven historical novels as Jean Plaidy, at least thirty-one gothic romances as Victoria Holt, and another nineteen historical romances as Philippa Carr...
August 1995: Valerie Gillies wrote and published the Will...
1906: A National Conference on Infant Mortality...
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1906
A National Conference on Infant Mortality was held in London.
Graham, Edwin E. “Infant Mortality, 26 September 1908”. Neonatology on the Web.
14 August 1912: Three English suffragettes jailed for the...
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14 August 1912
Three English suffragettes jailed for the Asquith
incident in Dublin started a hunger strike, demanding recognition as political prisoners; four Irish suffragettes joined the hunger strike next day.
Owens, Rosemary Cullen. Smashing Times: A History of the Irish Women’s Suffrage Movement 1889-1922. Attic, 1984.
62
23 January 1911: The Ulster Women's Unionist Council was established...
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23 January 1911
The Ulster Women's Unionist Council
was established to oppose Irish Home Rule and campaign for the continuing union of Ireland with Britain.
“Ulster Women’s Unionist Council Papers”. Genesis: RASCAL (Research And Special Collections Available Locally).
26 May 1897: Bram (Abraham) Stoker, who at the time was...
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Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
26 May 2010
1966: US cultural critic Susan Sontag published...
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1966
US cultural critic Susan Sontag
published Against Interpretation, her first essay collection. The title piece, On Style, and Notes on Camp (dedicated to Oscar Wilde
and exploring the idea of life as theatre)...
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Jennifer Dawson
JD
achieved an early reputation as a novelist of madness, in tune with 1960s ideas about the brilliant and eccentric visions of insanity being damped and persecuted by conformist social institutions. A friend observed that...
27 January 1822: The National Congress of Epidaurus declared...
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27 January 1822
The National Congress of Epidaurus declared Greek independence from Turkey; in practice, however, this was not fully achieved until 1829.
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978.
II: 45
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
116
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1780: The first recorded use was made of the word...
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1780
The first recorded use was made of the word tourist, meaning a person who travels to see sights: in a notice of an Ode to the Genius of the Lakes in the North of England.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.
1872: Samuel Butler anonymously published, at his...
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1872
Samuel Butler
anonymously published, at his own expense, his satirical novel Erewhon.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
151-2, 323
Howsam, Leslie. Kegan Paul—A Victorian Imprint. Kegan Paul; University of Toronto Press, 1998.
142-3
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
2 February 1785: The recently imposed window-tax (not the...
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2 February 1785
The recently imposed window-tax (not the first, but the most notorious tax of this kind) provoked the publication of an ironic mock sermon about it.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
59 (1785): 154
3-4 November 1839: Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Mo...
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3-4 November 1839
Welsh Chartists marched on Newport in Monmouthshire.
Thompson, Dorothy, 1923 - 2011, editor. The Early Chartists. Macmillan, 1971.
40
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. Women in the Chartist Movement. St Martin’s Press, 1991.
180
Royle, Edward. Chartism. Longman, 1980.
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27 April 1866: Benjamin Disraeli, leader of the opposition...
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27 April 1866
Benjamin Disraeli
, leader of the opposition to the Liberal
government, argued that if there is to be universal suffrage, women have as much right to vote as men.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
160
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
160, 386n34
1875: The weekly and monthly magazine Myra's Journal...
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1875
The weekly and monthly magazine Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion began publication.
Beetham, Margaret. A Magazine of Her Own?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman’s Magazine, 1800-1914. Routledge, 1996.
217
17 July 1862: The Emmiline Way Act legislated certification...
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17 July 1862
The Emmiline Way Act legislated certification for pauper schools under Poor Law jurisdiction.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
153
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.
1 December 1952: The news broke in the media of the first...
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1 December 1952
The news broke in the media of the first high-profile sex-change operation, performed in Denmark, by which a former American GI became Christine Jorgensen
.
Currah, Paisley. “Free to be she”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xx
, No. 5, Feb. 2003, pp. 21-2.
21
October 1884: The University College of North Wales opened...
Evans, W. Gareth. Education and Female Emancipation: the Welsh Experience, 1847-1914. University of Wales Press, 1990.
244
Dent, Harold Collett. 1870-1970: Century of Growth in English Education. Longmans, 1970.
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8 July 1874: Edmund Yates and Grenville Murray launched...
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8 July 1874
Edmund Yates
and Grenville Murray
launched a weekly they called The World, A Journal for Men and Women. It ran until 1922.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Yates
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Sheila Kaye-Smith
Writing mostly in the first half of the twentieth century, SKS
published thirty-one novels, in addition to about twenty works in other genres: biography, criticism, saints' lives, country lore, and books of memoirs (one of...
“Bowker’s Global Books in Print”. globalbooksinprint.com.
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Elizabeth White
EW
was an English seventeenth-century religious writer, whose single text, a little over twenty pages long, records her experience of marriage, childbirth, and spiritual crisis. Its publishing history demonstrates continuity between the Anglican church of...
December 1872: Female medical students were granted limited...
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December 1872
Female medical students were granted limited admission to the Royal Infirmary
, Edinburgh.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
