Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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14 January 1722: The London black community turned out in...
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14 January 1722
The London black community turned out in force for the funeral of Phipps, the black owner of an eating-house.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Probably 11 March 1676: George Etherege's final comedy, The Man of...
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Probably 11 March 1676
George Etherege
's final comedy, The Man of Mode, was first performed.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
30 October 1909: Rose Lamartine Yates planted a tree in Annie's...
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30 October 1909
Rose Lamartine Yates
planted a tree in Annie's Arboretum (named from Annie Kenney
), a commemorative landscape project begun by Emily
and Mary Blathwayt
at their home, Eagle House at Batheaston, which offered refuge...
1812-29: A series of Parliamentary Select Committees...
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1812-29
A series of Parliamentary Select Committees considered the judicial system, the prisons, and the policing of London, and published its findings in various reports; this year the first one debated the organisation of London's...
1833-1835: Early periods of the earth's history were...
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.
302
Van Riper, A. Bowdoin. Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
44-51
Porter, Roy. “Gentleman and Geology: The Emergence of A Scientific Career, 1660-1920”. Historical Journal, Vol.
21
, 1978, pp. 809-36.
819-21
1624: Thomas Heywood published Gynaikeion: or,...
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1624
Thomas Heywood
published Gynaikeion: or, Nine Bookes of Various History concerninge Women (on the title-page the first word is printed in Greek letters).
The Origins of Modern Feminism, 1567-1876. Quaritch, 1998.
Catalogue No. 11
3 September 1945: The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on...
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3 September 1945
The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on BBC
radio.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
378
1951: The popular Nineteenth Century and After...
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1951
The popular Nineteenth Century and After (titled thus since 1901) became the Twentieth Century.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
2: 624
By September 1800: The high price of wheat produced hardship...
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By September 1800
The high price of wheat produced hardship and scarcity in Britain and Ireland.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
158
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 30 (1800): 116-7, 458
A hundredweight (a measure of 112 pounds weight or one cwt) must be meant here...
By July 1755: Thomas Amory published Memoirs of the Lives...
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By July 1755
Thomas Amory
published Memoirs of the Lives of Several Ladies of Great Britain (an odd, ragbag work which is not, however, history or biography, but is generally classed as a novel).
Griffiths, Ralph, 1720 - 1803, and George Edward Griffiths, editors. Monthly Review. R. Griffiths.
13 (1755): 131
May 1823-October 1831: Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin composed a novel...
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May 1823-October 1831
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
composed a novel in verse (of eight cantos), Eugene Onegin, which has been praised as his greatest and most sophisticated work.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
799
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
480-1
Vickery, Walter N. Alexander Pushkin. Revised ed., Twayne, 1992.
91
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
799
28 May 1888: John Robert Gregg first published his system...
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28 May 1888
John Robert Gregg
first published his system of script shorthand, which in the long run superseded that of Isaac Pitman
(1837).
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
143
Symonds, F. Addington, and Paul S. Lomax. John Robert Gregg: The Man and His Work. Gregg, 1963.
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29 November 1969: ARPAnet, the Internet's precursor, established...
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29 November 1969
ARPAnet, the Internet's precursor, established its first link between UCLA and Stanford
(after an earlier attempt when the system crashed). By early December it was connecting computers between those two, UC Santa Barbara
, and...
1911: Hilda Hewlett became the first British woman...
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1911
Hilda Hewlett
became the first British woman accredited as a pilot.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1902: The Times Literary Supplement began publication,...
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1902
The Times Literary Supplement began publication, largely as a home for book reviews which The Times itself could not accommodate.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
168
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.
Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade, from Caxton to the Present Day. Andre Deutsch in association with the National Book League, 1973.
73
30 November-3 December 1999: World Trade Organization talks at Seattle,...
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30 November-3 December 1999
World Trade Organization
talks at Seattle, Washington, failed to reach agreement; 50,000 people gathered from around the world to protest against the WTO's methods and goals.
CNN World News: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, Seattle. http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min99_e/min99_e.htm.
2 January 1651: Charles Gerbier published a formal defence...
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2 January 1651
Charles Gerbier
published a formal defence of women: Elogium Heroinum: Or, The Praise of Worthy Women.
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.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
1936: Freda Swain, an English composer and pianist,...
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1936
Freda Swain
, an English composer and pianist, founded the British Music Movement
to promote new music, in an attempt to establish British music internationally.
Sadie, Julie Anne, and Rhian Samuel, editors. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Macmillan, 1994.
447
1880s: The Party of Individual Liberty was founded...
Petrow, Stefan. Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914. Clarendon Press, 1994, p. 343.
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8 June 1885: A Punch cartoon by Du Maurier on the annual...
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8 June 1885
A Punch cartoon by Du Maurier
on the annual Royal Academy
exhibition made fun of the recent controversy over nude models.
McMaster, Juliet. That Mighty Art of Black-and-White. Linley Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy. Ad Hoc Press, 2009.
59 and fig. 36
1967: A mammography machine was first develope...
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1967
A mammography machine was first developed.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
1874: Henry Mayhew, well known for his journalism...
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1874
Henry Mayhew
, well known for his journalism on the British lower classes, published London Characters.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
18
1811: The divorce corset, a padded, triangular...
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1811
The divorce corset, a padded, triangular piece of metal with curved sides that separated the breasts, appeared on the market in the UK.
Cunnington, C. Willett et al. The History of Underclothes. Revised, Faber and Faber, 1981.
74
Kunzle, David. Fashion and Fetishism: A Social History of the Corset, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-Sculpture in the West. Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.
113
1976: Women became eligible for Rhodes Scholarships...
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1976
Women became eligible for Rhodes Scholarships (established after the death of Cecil Rhodes
on 26 March 1902) for the first time.
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
364
1834: A general strike was held, organized by the...
