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1773: John Leake published A Lecture Introductory...

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1773

John Leake published A Lecture Introductory to the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, arguing, like others, that this ought to be taken over by men.
O’Malley, Andrew. The Creation of the Modern Child Subject: Children’s Literature, Pedagogy, Pediatrics, and the Politics of Class in Late Eighteenth-Century England. University of Alberta, 1999.
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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.

1953: New Zealand poet Mary Stanley published Starveling...

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1953

New Zealand poet Mary Stanley published Starveling Year, the only collection of her poetry to appear.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Anna Swanwick

Publishing in the mid and later nineteenth century, AS won fame firstly as a scholar and translator from German and then from ancient Greek. Her work for social causes (especially for the cause of women)...
Anna Swanwick Photograph of Anna Swanwick's grave marker. The marker is a high light grey column, with lists of names carved into each of the sides and painted in black.

By 1893: The Women's Local Government Society, whose...

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By 1893

The Women's Local Government Society , whose aim was to support the election of women to all local government offices, was founded by Annie Leigh Browne and other members of the Society for Promoting Women to all Local Government Bodies

March - May 1964: The Whitechapel Gallery in East London held...

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March - May 1964

The Whitechapel Gallery in East London held its New Generation show, featuring among its twelve exhibitors the work of Bridget Riley and David Hockney .
“Exhibitions 1950 - Present”. Whitechapel Gallery.
Spurling, Hilary. “’Mt aim is to make people feel alive’”. Guardian Weekly, 7 Jan. 2011, pp. 34-5.
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October 1882: Margaret Huxley became Matron at the National...

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October 1882

Margaret Huxley became Matron at the National Eye and Ear Infirmary in Dublin.
McGann, Susan. The Battle of the Nurses: A Study of Eight Women who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930. Scutari, 1992.
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1841: Russian Romantic poet and novelist Mikhail...

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1841

Russian Romantic poet and novelist Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov completed The Demon before his death in a duel in July of this year.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Charles Cowden Clarke

3 November 1914: An agreement of alliance between the UK and...

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3 November 1914

An agreement of alliance between the UK and Kuwait gave assurance that the UK would recognize Kuwait as an independent principality under British protection.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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1838: The Camden Society was founded; it was concerned...

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1838

The Camden Society was founded; it was concerned with the printing of unpublished material and reprinting rare works.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
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1764: A group of fashionable young Englishmen calling...

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1764

A group of fashionable young Englishmen calling themselves the Macaroni Club embarked on a campaign to promote Continental styles of cooking and dressing.
Nigro, Jeffrey A. “Estimating Lace and Muslin: Dress and Fashion in Jane Austen and her World”. Persuasions, Vol.
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, 2001, pp. 50-62.
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1973: The inaugural Businesswoman of the Year award...

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1973

The inaugural Businesswoman of the Year award was bestowed upon Stella Brummel , managing director of the machinery company Benford Ltd .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1936: George Allen and Unwin Limited bought control...

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1936

George Allen and Unwin Limited bought control of the Vienna-based Phaidon Press , founded in 1923, and transferred the firm's operations to London.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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10 December 1937: Writer and founder of the International Peace...

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10 December 1937

Writer and founder of the International Peace Campaign , Viscount Cecil of Chelwood from Great Britain was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Schlessinger, Bernard S., and June H. Schlessinger. The Who’s Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-1995. 3rd ed., Oryx Press, 1996.
Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

By the late 1640s: Caribbean sugar production became established...

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By the late 1640s

Caribbean sugar production became established among the colonists on the island of Barbados. An upper-class luxury hitherto imported from Palestine and Syria now became a popular commodity in Britain, and an engine driving...

1970: Judy Blume published her phenomenally successful...

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1970

Judy Blume published her phenomenally successful Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, which, uniquely among books for the young, treats menstruation from a girl's viewpoint.
Pollitt, Katha. “Fourteen million Americans can’t be wrong”. London Review of Books, 6 Sept. 2001, pp. 13-14.
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1681: Andrew Marvell's Miscellaneous Poems were...

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1681

Andrew Marvell 's Miscellaneous Poems were posthumously published by his widow (whose legal right to this designation was doubted by scholars for a long time).
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April 1941: The word teenager entered the English language:...

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April 1941

The word teenager entered the English language: the Oxford English Dictionary's earliest example comes from Popular Science Monthly of this date: I never knew teen-agers could be so serious.
Oxford English Dictionary Online. http://dictionary.oed.com/.

8 August 1781: At the Haymarket Theatre, a transvestite...

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8 August 1781

At the Haymarket Theatre , a transvestite Beggar's Opera (in which most of the male parts were played by women and the female parts by men) garnered such favourable audience response that its performance was...

12 March 1938: Hitler set on foot the annexation by force...

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12 March 1938

Hitler set on foot the annexation by force of Austria, an event presented as and later known as Anschluss or Union.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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December 1681: The Privy Council moved against Quakers and...

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December 1681

The Privy Council moved against Quakers and Dissenters by enforcing past orders against them, like the Clarendon Code, which dated 1661 and the few years thereafter.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Emily Frederick Clark

EFC wrote for the support of her family (whose supposedly distinguished origins were very important to her). Between 1798 and 1819 she published four novels, a volume of poems, and another of stories. Much other...

19 April 1780: Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration...

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19 April 1780

Henry Grattan made an impassioned declaration to the Irish parliament of the legislative independence of Ireland from England.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu was an Indian poet and political activist who published in English in the first decades of the twentieth century.
The British Library catalogue spells her name Sarojini Nayadu .
While studying in England...
Sarojini Naidu Black and white photo of Sarojini Naidu, head and neck only. She looks quizzically at the camera, her face resting on one hand, with slightly raised eyebrows emphasizing the wrinkles on her forehead. Her dark grey hair is brushed back, and she wears dangly earrings.