Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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After 24 August 1572: The St Bartholomew's Eve massacre in France...
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After 24 August 1572
The St Bartholomew's Eve massacre in France brought an influx of skilled Protestant refugees to England.
McIntyre, Ian. Garrick. Penguin, 1999.
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Brewer, E. Cobham. The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Avenel Books, 1978.
1911: Gertrude Dunn (later Renton, later Baillie-Weaver)...
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1911
Gertrude Dunn
(later Renton, later Baillie-Weaver) published under her regular pseudonym, Gertrude Colmore
her novel Suffragette Sally, about a fictional heroine called Sally Simmonds. The author died in 1926.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
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15 March 2011: Street demonstrations in Syria began to escalate...
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15 March 2011
Street demonstrations in Syria began to escalate into revolutary action, then brutal repression, then full-scale civil war. At six years old the war was still going strong, with cities like Aleppo bombed into ruins, thousands...
18 September 2014: In the Scottish referendum held on the question...
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18 September 2014
In the Scottish referendum held on the question whether Scotland should be independent, i.e. should sever its existing ties with the UK, the No side won, with 2,001,926 votes or fifty-five percent, to 1,617,989 votes...
1 January 1852: Leisure Hour: A Family Journal Of Instruction...
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1 January 1852
Leisure Hour: A Family Journal Of Instruction And Recreation began publication as an illustrated penny-weekly with didactic serial novels.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
27 August 1981: A group of thirty-six women left Cardiff...
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27 August 1981
A group of thirty-six women left Cardiff on foot, to walk the 120 miles to the RAF
base at Greenham Common near Newbury to protest against the plan for its use as a home for...
2 February 1651: The second of Izaak Walton's biographies...
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2 February 1651
The second of Izaak Walton
's biographies appeared, that of Sir Henry Wotton
, as preface to a volume entitled Reliquiae Wottonianae.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
16 November 1682: The recently-formed United Company gave its...
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 299, 316
1969-73: The FBI used women informers to supply them...
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1969-73
The FBI
used women informers to supply them with thousands of pages of multimedia files on the activities of the women's movement in the USA.
Mann, Judy. “Marching Orders”. Guardian Weekly, 2–8 Mar. 2000, p. 30.
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1824: Sadi Carnot established the two laws of thermodynamics...
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1824
Sadi Carnot
established the two laws of thermodynamics and published (on the second law) Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Revolution 1789-1848. Vintage, 1996.
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Taton, René, editor. Science in the Nineteenth Century. Translator Pomerans, Arnold J., Vol. 3, Basic Books, 1965.
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1891: Margaret Louisa Woods published Esther Vanhomrigh,...
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1891
Margaret Louisa Woods
published Esther Vanhomrigh, a historical romance centred on one of the women Swift
loved. She was an interesting subject: a poet and letter-writer herself, who pursued Swift to Ireland when he...
October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...
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October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...
1549: A poor people's rising took place in East...
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1549
A poor people's rising took place in East Anglia, led by Robert Kett
; the government of Protector Somerset
sided with the commons against the gentry, but was for this reason brought down.
Clark, Jonathan Charles Douglas. Samuel Johnson: Literature, religion and English cultural politics from Restoration to Romanticism. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Collinson, Patrick. “What news?”. The London Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2001, pp. 19-22.
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1912-1914: Numerous music hall sketches satirized the...
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1912-1914
Numerous music hall sketches satirized the women's suffrage movement. A typical sketch from 1912, Helping the Cause, starred Lillie Langtry
and lampooned the figure of the wealthy woman suffrage supporter.
Russell, Dave. “Varieties of life: the making of the Edwardian music hall”. The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage, edited by Michael R. Booth and Joel H. Kaplan, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 61-85.
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By 16 December 1871: Lewis Carroll published Through the Looking-Glass...
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By 16 December 1871
Lewis Carroll
published Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (generally known as Alice Through the Looking-Glass).
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2303 (1871): 787
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Stella Benson
SB
's fiction and travel-writing, and also her poetry and diaries, are rich in visual impact and imaginative oddity. She is an acute observer of material and emotional reality of the earlier twentieth century, into...
25 April 1848: A constitution for the entire Austrian Empire...
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25 April 1848
A constitution for the entire Austrian Empire was proclaimed in Vienna; among its provisions was the abolition of serfdom.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
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22 October 2002: The Booker Prize was awarded for the first...
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22 October 2002
The Booker Prize was awarded for the first time as the Man Booker Prize, its sponsorship having passed to the Man Group
, a Canadian venture capital company.
“Booker Prize 2002”. Guardian Unlimited.
17 July 1729: The all-female mercury firms of Elizabeth...
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17 July 1729
The all-female mercury firms of Elizabeth Nutt
and Anne Dodd
were summonsed about a libel they had published. Subordinate members of each firm testified that the mistress was not responsible, having been away ill at...
1983: Just Seventeen, a fashion magazine for teenagers...
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1983
Just Seventeen, a fashion magazine for teenagers from D. C. Thomson
, began publication in London.
McAleer, Joseph. Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950. Clarendon Press, 1992.
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22 August 1798: A French invasion force landed at Killala,...
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22 August 1798
A French invasion force landed at Killala, County Mayo, Ireland: joined by some Irish reinforcements, it won a victory at Castlebar but was finally defeated near Granard, County Longford, by British troops. The...
1907: Hatty Baker began to act as the first female...
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1907
Hatty Baker
began to act as the first female Congregational
minister in Britain, though without official sanction.
Kaye, Elaine. “A Turning-point in the Ministry of Women: The Ordination of the First Woman to the Christian Ministry in England in September 1917”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 505-12.
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Bebbington, D. W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain. A history from the 1730s to the 1980s. Routledge, 1989.
